Articles of incorporation, ca. 1849.

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Articles of incorporation, ca. 1849.

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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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New-York Historical Society

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House, Royal Earl, 1814-1895

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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 C...

Richards, John B.

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Philadelphia and Washington Printing Telegraph Company

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Printing telegraph company established ca. 1849 with the aim of erecting a telegraph from Philadelphia through Wilmington and Baltimore to Washington, D.C. From the description of Articles of incorporation, ca. 1849. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58773577 ...

Philips, William J.

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