Working Number | Name | Holding Museum | Date | Materials | Curator Justification |
FR 032 | 24 hour optical telegraphy presented to the minister by a marine officer and used by the coast signalling services (1802) | National Library of France | 1801 | | Napoleon I promoted the use of telegraph in the territories he conquered. In his military campaigns, he recognised the importance of technical innovations.
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TR2 068 | Telegraph transmitter | Istanbul Postal Museum | 1912 | Metal | A telegraph transmitter from the Postal Museum in Istanbul. Telegraph was a global tool. The first telegraph networks in the Ottoman Empire were started between 1847 and 1855.
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UK 132 | Map of the Red Sea | The British Library | 1883 | | This map was included in a guide with sailing indications for British ships crossing the Red Sea on the route to India. Submarine telegraph cables had been installed between Suez, Sawakin and Jiddah (ports on the Red Sea). Telegraph communication developed also between ports and along strategic trade and mail routes.
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FR 033 | 10 cents an issue. Le Télégraphe. Morning Newspaper. Special connections with the whole world. | National Library of France | 1886 | | Towards the end of the 19th century, telegraph had developed and was widespread and familiar. It was seen as another sign of progress.
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MO 016 | Document attesting to the 'Telegraph Crisis' between Morocco and Great Britain | General Library and Archives | 1887 | Paper | European diplomatic and economic interference in Morocco, consolidated by the Commercial Treaty of 1856, is illustrated by the crisis over the Tangier–Gibraltar telegraph line. The British Eastern Telegraph Company built the line in 1884–87 without the permission of the Sultan Mulay al-Hasan as a fait accompli and in spite of his protests.
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ET1 007 | A telegram from the Khedive of Egypt to the Ottoman sultan | Bibliotheca Alexandrina | 15 December 1897 | | Telegrams were a widespread form of communication at the political and official level.
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MO 017 | Electric telegraph machine | Itisalat al-Maghrib Museum | 1907 | | During the reign of Sultan Mulay ‘Abd al-Aziz telegraph lines were introduced in Morocco.
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MO 018 | Newspaper to commemorate the installation of wireless telegraph | Itisalat al-Maghrib Museum | 1907 | Paper; printed | During the reign of Sultan Mulay ‘Abd al-Aziz, on the eve of the French protectorate, wireless telegraph communication was made possible between Paris and French ships in the port of Casablanca. This newspaper celebrates Edouard Branly and Guglielmo Marconi, two pioneers of radiocommunication.
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