The earliest proposal to use electricity for communicating signals was made in 1753 in the “ Scots Magazine ” by a writer who signed himself “ C.M.” In 1811, Sommerring, a German anatomist, made a telegraph apparatus. The first instrument which came into practical use was that of Gauss and Weber at Gottingen in 1833. Four years later the germ from -which the present system has been developed was independently discovered by Steinlieil, of Munich; Wheatstone, of London; and Morse, of Charleston, in the United dates from 1837.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 3 February 1934, Page 27 (Supplement)
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