Victorian Telecommunications

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The Victorian Revolution in telecommunications

• The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
• The Introduction of the Penny Post
• Postal Products: Postage stamps, Stationery, Letter Racks, Paper Clips, Ink Wells, Desk Sets, Portable Writing Desks
• Prepaid Stationery and the Penny Black

Semaphore and other Visual Telegraphy

• Watson's Telegraph (1842)
• Inside the Telegraph Tower (1842)

Electricity-based Telegraphy

• The Electric Telegraph, Telecommunications Wonder of the Railway Age: 1791 to 1852
• The Laying of Submarine Cable — The Triumph of Brunel's "Great Eastern" on 27 July 1866

Telecommunication without Wires

• Radio & Wireless — Victorian Old Patents and Inventions (a web resource)

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Last modified 11 May 2011