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Wheatstone's Electric telegraph

Photo: Charles Wheatstone's electric telegraph

The electric telegrapher developed by Sir Charles Wheatstone, first Professor of Experimental Philosophy at King's. The telegrapher had five wires which drove five needles which could point to 20 different letters, omitting J, C, Q, U and X.

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