Records created and used by the International Telegraph Company 1852-1858
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International Telegraph Company
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The International Telegraph Company was formed by the Electric Telegraph Company in 1852. The ETC obtained a concession from the Dutch Government in 1852 to lay wires from Orfordness, on the east coast of England, to Scheveningham in Holland and then to The Hague. However, because the Dutch Government objected to the Holland line of the new submarine telegraph cable being made by the ETC, the International Telegraph Company was formed. The new company was managed by the ETC with ETC...
Electric Telegraph Company
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The Electric Telegraph Company, the first electric telegraph company in Britain, was provisionally registered in September 1845 and officially incorporated as a company by Parliament in 1846. It was set up by William Fothergill Cooke and Joseph Lewis Ricardo to work the patents of Cooke and Wheatstone. The ETC's major growth period coincided with the expansion of the railways in the 1840s by providing electric communication to the railways' signal operators. The company grew rapidly...
International Telegraph Company
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The International Telegraph Company was formed by the Electric Telegraph Company in 1852. The ETC obtained a concession from the Dutch Government in 1852 to lay wires from Orfordness, on the east coast of England, to Scheveningham in Holland and then to The Hague. However, because the Dutch Government objected to the Holland line of the new submarine telegraph cable being made by the ETC, the International Telegraph Company was formed. The new company was managed by the ETC with ETC...
Electric and International Telegraph Company, 1855-1870
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