| Web Sites |
Sites whose primary purpose is telegraph history or research |
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Distant Writing - Electric Telegraphy in Britain |
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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
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The Electromagnetic Telegraph - the development of International Morse Code, and related matters |
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Telegraph-History - John Casale's articles on U.S. telegraph history |
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Related websites with useful content |
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Computer Networking and Telecommunications Research Group - Salford University’s communications research and outreach project |
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| Museums |
Museums whose primary focus is telegraphy (landline or cable) |
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Valentia Heritage Centre - Ireland |
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Porthcurno Telegraph Museum - Cornwall |
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Heart’s Content Cable Station Provincial Historic Site - Newfoundland |
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French Cable Station Museum - Orleans, Massachusetts |
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Museums with some telegraphy equipment (landline or cable) on display |
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Museum of the History of Science - Oxford: The Marconi collection and some cable material. See below for the Marconi archives. |
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Resources for Learning in Scotland - telegraph resources in Scottish museums, libraries, and archives |
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Science Museum - London |
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American Museum of Radio & Electricity - Bellingham, WA. |
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Locust Grove - Poughkeepsie, NY: Samuel Morse Historic Site |
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Smithsonian Institution - Washington DC |
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http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/marconi/marconi.html |
| Archives |
Archives and Libraries with significant collections of telegraph books and documents |
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BT Archives (London). British telecommunications history: library; original source documents, including early records of the private telegraph companies; photographs, films and videos. |
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Cable & Wireless Archive - a large collection of documents and artifacts (mostly held at Porthcurno; see above), catalogued at the National Archive, London |
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology (London) has important collections of early submarine cable and telegraphy material.
Archive Catalogue: search for “submarine cables” and “submarine telegraphy” |
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The Marconi Archive (Oxford) is now catalogued and on line |
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Documents from the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Telcon) are held by:
National Maritime Museum (London): Archive Catalogue (search for "Telegraph Construction")
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Cornwall): Alcatel (Telcon) archive
Merseyside Maritime Museum (Liverpool): included in BICC archive |
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Kelvin letters and papers at the University of Glasgow |
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The Smithsonian Institution Library (Washington DC) has a large collection of works on the history of electricity which includes much telegraph material |
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| Catalogs |
Trade catalog archives which include telegraph equipment |
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin |
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| Collections |
Private collections of telegraph equipment and documents |
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K0IU Telegraph Collection |
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K4TJP Telegraph Collection |
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Morsekey.net - Eliseo Chiarucci’s collection of Italian and other instruments, telegraph maps and books (in Italian) |
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Signa Telegraph Collection - Gustavo Coll, Uruguay |
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The Sparks Telegraph Key Review - Russ Kleinman's collection |
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Telegraph Instruments of Europe - Fons vanden Berghen's collection |
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The Telegraph Office - Neal McEwan’s collection |
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The Vibroplex Collector's Page - Randy Cole’s collection |
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W1TP Telegraph & Scientific Instrument Museums - Tom Perera's collection |
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| Search |
Useful search resources |
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Google Book Search - includes many early works on telegraphy and cables
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Internet Archive - the text section includes some works on telegraphy and cables; the Prelinger Archive has a number of short films on telegraphy and communications which may be viewed on line or downloaded. |
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