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The Invention of the Telegraph

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Cook and Wheatstone Model

Towell tried to flee the area by boarding a steam engine in slough that was bound for paddington station in westminster. Authorities used the telegraph to send ahead a description of Towell, and there he was apprehended. He was put on trial, and he was convicted. His lawyer tried to argue that his client had been poisoned by eating apple seeds. The machine did not have letters such as c or j, or x, or u, or c or z - presumably because you could replace all these letters phonetically with combinations of other letters. But anyway, so looking at the five needle model, when yo, when you're actually telling bot the most complete alphabetic

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