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Methodological Perspectives on British Commercial Telegraphy and the Colonial Struggle over Democratic Connections in Gibraltar, 1914–1941

Media and Communication, 2018
This article examines the privatization of telegraphy in the British Empire from the perspective of Gibraltar, an overseas territory in the Mediterranean. While the history of international telegraphy is typically written from a world-systems perspective,
Bryce Peake
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A tale of two telegraphs: Cooke and Wheatstone’s differing visions of electric telegraphy

Science Museum Group Journal, 2017
This paper explores the early development of practical electric telegraphy in Britain during the nineteenth century. It exposes the two fundamentally different approaches to the design of telegraphic instruments specified in a joint patent between ...
Jean-François Fava-Verde
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60 years of the Antarctic Treaty – history and celebration in radio waves [PDF]

Polarforschung, 2022
The Antarctic Treaty, successfully negotiated and signed in 1959, entered into force after ratification by the 12 original signatory countries in 1961.
V. Strecke, V. Strecke
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Wireless Telegraphy [PDF]

Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1899
Kelvin Reginald, A Fessel
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Guglielmo Marconi, Augusto Righi and the invention of wireless telegraphy

, 2021
One of the major accomplishments of the late nineteenth-century applied physics was, as it is well known, the development of wireless telegraphy by Guglielmo Marconi, future Nobel laureate.
M. Leone, N. Robotti
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Why do states in conflict with each other also sustain resilient cooperation in international regulation? Britain and telegraphy, 1860s–1914

, 2021
This article compares the explanatory power of five mainstream theories from International Relations, political science and public management in understanding why – when they are engaged in deepening conflict and tension and even preparations for wars ...
Perri 6, Eva Heims
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Sommerfeld Integrals and Their Relation to the Development of Planar Microwave Devices

IEEE Journal of Microwaves, 2021
This paper deals with the mathematical expressions called Sommerfeld integrals. Introduced by A. Sommerfeld in 1909, they are mathematically equivalent to inverse Hankel transforms.
JUAN R. MOSIG, KRZYSZTOF A. MICHALSKI
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Mind Reading in Stage Magic: The “Second Sight” Illusion, Media, and Mediums

communication +1, 2015
This article analyzes the late-nineteenth-century stage illusion “The Second Sight,” which seemingly demonstrates the performers’ telepathic abilities.
Katharina Rein
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Time and Telegraphy: Nineteenth-Century Contexts for Stained Glass

19, 2020
Although nineteenth-century writers frequently conceived of rail travel as a dream space of collaged, fleeting, and disjunctive experiences, the transition from everyday life to travel dream state has been rarely explored.
Karen Burns
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Technologies of Romance: Valentine from a Telegraph Clerk ♂ to a Telegraph Clerk ♀: the material culture and standards of early electrical telegraphy

Science Museum Group Journal, 2019
In 1860, renowned natural philosopher (now referred to as a ‘scientist’ or, more specifically in the case of Clerk Maxwell, a ‘physicist’) James Clerk Maxwell wrote ‘Valentine from a Telegraph Clerk ♂ [male] to a Telegraph Clerk ♀ [female]’ (Harman, 2001)
Elizabeth Bruton
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