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Title: | The telegraphs in Malta during the Victorian era |
Authors: | Bonello, Giovanni |
Keywords: | Telegraph -- Malta -- History Cables, Submarine -- Malta Telegraph lines -- Malta -- History Telegraph stations -- Malta -- History |
Issue Date: | 1991-12 |
Publisher: | Malta Philatelic Society |
Citation: | Bonello, G. (1991). The telegraphs in Malta during the Victorian era. The PSM magazine, 20(2-3), 30-58. |
Abstract: | Spoilt as we are by split-second communications world-wide, it is virtually impossible for us to imagine what it must have been like in the 1840s to receive or transmit messages and information over very long distances. A person who wanted to communicate with far away places had only one way open to him: the mail. No telephone, no radio links, no fax machines, no teleprinters, no telegrams, no satellites, no fibre optics. Just a slow-moving letter that could take weeks or months to reach its destination. The discovery of electricity was to be a veritable turning point. A few visionaries, in an age of great scientific curiosity and experimentation, had the intuition that electricity could be disciplined to carry messages. [excerpt] |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/79302 |
Appears in Collections: | JMPS - 1991 - 20(2-3) |
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