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English: Fig. 12 from the plate on "Telegraph" in Rees's Cyclopædia, illustrating Richard Lovell Edgeworth's proposal for an optical telegraph system in Ireland. Each indicator was used to display the number of a particular unit, to form a four-figure number, which then represented characters and words via a codebook. For further explanatory text, see entry on "TELEGRAPH", volume 35 of the Cyclopædia. |
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Date | 1802-1820 (serial publication of the source work) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | Rees's Cyclopædia, Plates Vol. IV, "TELEGRAPH", Fig. 1 and 2; from a digital scan at https://archive.org/details/cyclopaediaplates04rees | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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