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Figure 5

Colour photograph of a Cooke and Wheatstone five needle telegraph

© National Railway Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

Cooke and Wheatstone five needle telegraph used for communication by the cable-worked London and Blackwell Railway c. 1840

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/211603/010