Punch,  12 (1847), 220.

Tales of the Telegraph

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Amusement


    Reports that the adoption of the electric telegraph at Epsom Racecourse has had 'such an effect on the minds of several of the old workers' of the 'old-fashioned telegraph', that these 'poor creatures' were allowed to use their invention to send 'a set of incoherent signals'. Admires the humane spirit in which these individuals 'indulge a sort of garrulity through the medium of those signals' on the old telegraph.



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