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Royal Earl House (1814-1895) was an inventor who was born in Rockland, Vt. During the mid 1840s House became interested in electricity and focused his efforts on producing an electric telegraph that could print Roman character letters. In 1846 he secured a patent for an alpha-numerical telegraph that could print at the rate of fifty words per minute. By 1855 an extensive range of telegraph lines equipped with his printing telegraph was erected from Boston to New York and Washington and west to Cleveland and Cincinnati. In 1849 he was sued for infringement by the owners of the Morse patents and won the suit. However, after the general consolidation of competitive telegraph interests took place around 1850, House's apparatus went out of use. During the 1860s House developed an electro-phonetic receiver for use in telegraphy. This device was really an early telephone and many observers felt it was superior to the telephone that Alexander Graham Bell patented in 1876. In 1885 Bell sued House for patent infringement. Again, House won in court but his device lost in the marketplace.

From the description of Papers, 1885-1891. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122573320

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House, Royal E.

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James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

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Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

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Maine Historical Society. [Contact repository for more information].

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Maine Historical Society. [Contact repository for more information].

Title: Maine Historical Society. [Contact repository for more information].

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Smithsonian Archives. Aldred T. Vail Papers.

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Smithsonian Archives. Aldred T. Vail Papers.

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Aldred T. Vail Papers.

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Papers, 1885-1891.

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House, Royal Earl, 1814-1895. Papers, 1885-1891.

Title: Papers, 1885-1891.

The 29 letters in this collection documents Alexander Graham Bell's suit against Royal Earl House. Included are letters from House's patent lawyers A.M. Wooster and Leonard Pope. Also included are letters from the Wallace Electric Telephone Manufacturing Co. which was manufacturing the House telephone during the 1880s.

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Articles of incorporation, ca. 1849.

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Philadelphia and Washington Printing Telegraph Company. Articles of incorporation, ca. 1849.

Title: Articles of incorporation, ca. 1849.

Articles of association, ca. 1849, of the Philadelphia and Washington Printing Telegraph Company which intended to erect a telegraph from Philadelphia to Washington D.C., with service to intermediate cities, based upon Royal E. House's invention of the magnetic letter printing telegraph. House's telegraphic printing sysytem had been patented by him in 1846. Drawn up by Royal E. House and signed by him and by John B. Richards and W. J. Philips, both of New York City, the only subscribers. Includes a sample of telegraphic printing created with the application of House's invention.

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Ballard, William

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Ballard, William
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Gifford, George

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Gifford, George
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Morse, Samuel F. B.

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Morse, Samuel F. B.
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O'reilly, Henry

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O'reilly, Henry
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Smith, Francis O. J.

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Smith, Francis O. J.
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House, Royal Earl, 1814-1895

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Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.

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Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.
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House, Royal Earl, 1814-1895

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Philadelphia and Washington Printing Telegraph Company.

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Philadelphia and Washington Printing Telegraph Company.
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Wallace Electric Telephone Manufacturing Company.

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Wallace Electric Telephone Manufacturing Company.
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