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1753 The Telegraph is Invented

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Cryptography History : The Telegraph is Invented
1753 The Telegraph is Invented
1753 The Telegraph is Invented

The Telegraph

The Telegraph showed that electrostatically generated signals which stood for letters of the alphabet could be sent a long way through a wire with the circuit being completed through the Earth. The original telegraph used 26 wires; one for each letter of the alphabet.

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