A Complete History and Description of the Semaphoric, Electric
and Magnetic Telegraphs
of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Ancient and Modern
By
Table of Contents
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(Note: All telegraph documents are Adobe PDF format. Some chapters are quite large in size.)
[We are providing this out of print book online for your educational pleasure. This is, by far, one of the jewels of telegraph books if you want to learn about the technology and how it worked. You'll learn everything from how a telegraph office works, what typical forms looked like, what timber is best for telegraph poles, how wires were insulated and pins attached to poles, and even how tariffs worked in the 1850's. This is an exact duplicate of the book made possible by Making of America (MOA). If you like reading old books, check out MOA's website. We've compiled each chapter into an Adobe Acrobat file for easy viewing, downloading and, printing.]