Directory of Telegraphy Resources

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• By Telegraph from England: The Queen's Message, The President's Reply

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe23/rbpe233/23302200/rbpe23302200.db
  The first transatlantic telegraph message and reply. Sent August 12, 1858 between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan.

• Events in Telecommunications History

  http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistory/Eventsintelecommunicationshistory/Eventsintelecommunicationshistory.htm
  A chronology of telecommunications history from the British Telecom Group archives.

• Ezra Cornell: a Nineteenth-Century Life

  http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Ezra-exhibit/entrance.html
  An on-line exhibit from Cornell University Library that documents Ezra Cornell's involvement with the construction of the first telegraph lines in America.

• Granville T. Woods

  https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/woods.html
  Biography of this African-American engineer and inventor, who developed and patented several inventions relating to telegraphy.

• Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=simple&c=moa&sid=611f825d47fd892f&q1=telegraph&rgn=title&firstpubl1=1845&firstpubl2=1925&view=toc&cc=moa&idno=AGX3786.0001.001&start=1&size=25
  Full text of Alexander Jones. 1852 publication.

• History of Teletype Development

  http://www.thocp.net/hardware/history_of_teletype_development_.htm
  Brief historical account of the printing telegraph system.

• History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy

  http://atlantic-cable.com/
  Traces the history of undersea cable communications, from the first telegraph cables used in 1850 to the fiber optic cables used today for the Internet.

• Knights of the Key.

  http://home.mindspring.com/~railroadstories/rrmmv1n1/knights.htm
  Old time telegraphers tell their stories. Taken from early editions of Railroad Man's Magazine.

• Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph

  http://www.insulators.info/books/mpet/
  The entire 19th century book by Franklin Pope is viewable at this site. This was the standard reference book used by the U.S. Signal Service.

• N7CFO

  http://www.n7cfo.com/
  The homepage of ham radio operator, Lynn Burlingame, N7CFO. Resources for telegraph historians including the index of the 1894 book, "Telegraphers of Today." Also available is the index and information about the publication, "The N7CFO KeyLetter," a major resource for telegraph instrument collectors.

• Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1791-1919

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/sfbmhome.html
  An online presentation comprising about 6,500 items that document Morse's career, including his invention of the electro-magnetic telegraph and participation in the development of telegraph systems used in the United States and abroad.

• Telegraph History

  http://www.telegraph-history.org/
  an assortment of articles that focus on U.S. telegraph history.

• The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy

  http://www.tasrt.ca/TASRT/
  A comprehensive manual for learning, using, mastering and enjoying Morse code as a means of communication, by William G. Pierpont, N0HFF.

• The Atlantic Cable

  http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/hst/atlantic-cable/
  Image reproduction of a book by Bern Dibner, published by the Burndy Library.

• The Aurora Borealis and the Telegraph

  http://www.rainbowriderstradingpost.com/article1.html
  Essay on how solar flares crippled communications during the 19th century.

• The Commercial Cable Company

  http://www.cial.org.uk/
  History of the Commercial Cable Company and its Atlantic telegraph cables.

• The Early History of Data Networks

  http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/papers/Early_History_of_Data_Networks/The_Early_History_of_Data_Networks.html
  The online (PDF) book by Gerard J. Holzman and Bjorn Pehrson with extensive information about the history of optical telegraphy.

• The Electromagnetic Telegraph

  http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/tel/morse/morse.htm
  A technical history of the 19th-century electromagnetic telegraph by Dr. James B. Calvert.

• The Joseph Henry Papers Project

  http://siarchives.si.edu/history/jhp/jhenry.html
  Documenting the life of the revered American scientist who conducted pioneering work in electromagnetism. His unselfish genius helped bring about the inventions of the telegraph, electric motor, and telephone.

• The Overland Telegraph

  http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/overland.htm
  Essay describes the construction of the telegraph connecting Adelaide and the rest of Australia, through Darwin, with England in 1872.

• The Railroad Telegrapher

  http://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/ozarkswatch/ow702h.htm
  Article by Jim Thompson, a retired San Francisco Railway telegrapher.

• The Sparks Telegraph Key Review

  http://www.zianet.com/sparks/
  An interactive historical and pictorial review of telegraph and wireless telegraph keys. Included is a comprehensive listing of the manufacturers actively building equipment and keys during the spark-era of radio.

• Thomas A. Edison Papers

  http://edison.rutgers.edu/
  Information and documents about Edison's life and career including his years as a telegrapher and inventions in the field of telegraphy.

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