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7,500 and a contingent sum of 2,500. In 1846 he obtained a patent for his Electro Chemical Telegraph, which, he says," is an invention surpassing all others in the speed ot transmitting messages ...

It is well-known that the English claim the invention of the magnetic telegraph for their countryman, Prof. Wheatstone. The Transatlantic telegraph enterprise has caused the subject of priority of ...

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On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone. This is another master stroke for the scientific community of the day.

This was the beginning of the birth of electromagnetism. From this came the invention of the electric telegraph by Cook and Wheatstone. In 1845 the telegraph shot to fame when John Tawell was ...

The invention of the telegraph by Cooke and Wheatstone. videoThe invention of the telegraph by Cooke and Wheatstone A description of the major scientific invention of the telegraph by Cook and ...