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Electrical Telegraph
- Discover how the Wheatstone and Cooke telegraph was the start of communication as we know it: read the article The Birth of Electronic Communications – 1837 downloadable from www.cntr.salford.ac.uk/comms/history.php
- Watch a video showing how the electric telegraph worked at www.youtube.com/salfordphones
- Read more about how the telegraph network was developed and how it impacted people’s lives in The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers, Tom Standage, Walker & Company; Reprint edition (2007), ISBN-10: 0802716040, ISBN-13: 978-0802716040
- See displays of telegraph equipment in the Connecting Manchester gallery in the 1830 warehouse at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
- Visit the Electronics in Schools Strategy website at www.ectinschools.org to access support material for teaching Electronics and Communications Technology