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Identifier: belltelephonemag15amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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5t >-1 s THE BELL SYSTEM HISTORICAL MUSEUM walls. A general view of the Museum is shown in the frontis-piece. The Telegraph Precedes the Telephone The earliest exhibit chronologically is a telegraph receiver(Figure 1) made by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1843, the year be-fore the first telegraph line was opened between Baltimore andWashington, and then follows a group of early telegraph re-peaters, sounders, relays and keys in the 1850-1860 period.One historic relic in this group is a telegraph key from Wash-ington, D. C, on which acknowledgment was made of the mes-sage from General Grant at Appomattox to Lincoln at Wash-ington that General Lee had surrendered and the Civil Warwas ended. Pieces of Cyrus W. Fields first, second, andthird Atlantic telegraph cables, dating from 1858 to 1866,are also on exhibit. In addition, there is a complete ElishaGray printing telegraph machine which was used in 1872(Figure 2). The telegraph was in full swing prior to theinvention of the telephone, and i

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