Telegraphic Operating Room

Photograph taken of a telegraphic operating room at the General Post Office in London. The number of telegraphic messages transmitted from the various London offices in the years 1895-96 was 27, 025, 193, and the total for the United Kingdom, 78, 839, 610. As many as six messages-three in each direction- are now transmitted along a single wire at the same time. Dated 1896, London

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