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Electrical Telegraph

The Electrical Telegraph was invented in 1837 by William Fothergill Cook (1806-1879) and Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) in England with parallel innovations being made by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) in the United States. The telegraph, once wires and undersea cables had connected countries and continents, transformed communications so that messages could be sent and received anywhere in just minutes.

Telegraph Pioneers

The idea of sending signals from one distant place to another has been in use since antiquity, notably with towers using fire beacons. Ships have long used a system of flags (semaphore) to communicate beyond shouting distance. These methods, though, were limited to only very important communications, for more mundane messages people had to use horse-riding messengers that could take several days or even weeks to reach their intended recipient.

The Italian Alexander Volta (1745-1827) invented the electric battery in 1800, necessary for a telegraph machine to be operated anywhere. Then the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) created the first electromagnet in 1825. Ørsted's discovery that an electrical current flowing in a conductor can create a magnetic field – which he noted when observing the effect on a magnetic compass on his desk – was crucial to the telegraph machine since this was the answer to the problem of how to make electrical impulses visible in the form of a moving needle. The French physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) worked to create a theory that explained the relationship between an electrical current and magnetism. The first electric motor was developed by the Englishman Michael Faraday (1791-1867) in 1821. With all of these scientific discoveries put together, inventors now had the theoretical means to send electrical impulses through a wire and then see the effect at the other end. The trick was just how to create a working machine capable of sending and receiving these impulses over long distances and a code by which such impulses could be transformed into words.

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The Ghost of Christmas Present and The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come - art by John Leech (1843)

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Nancy Foy Lawson by William Matthew Prior, 1843

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Le Follet, 1843 🩵

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Map of Europe by Chinese in 1843 (shortly after Opium war)

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An uroboros circles the words faith, power, will and truth. The history and philosophy of animal magnetism. 1843.

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Description of the uniforms of the Royal Navy from 1843

There is a large list behind it, so take a look at the link.

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La Mode, 5 octobre 1843, Paris. Chapeaux de velours garnis de plumes de Zacharie. Fleurs de Constantin. Etoffes de robes de Gagelin. Manteau du Pavillon de Hanovre. Dentelles de Violard. Gants de Mayer. Chaussures de Baudrand, 348 St. Honore. Meubles de Maigret. Envois de la Maison de Commission Lassalle et Cie., 28 rue Taitbout. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

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Wesleyan Chapel, Camborne, Cornwall /Kernow

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Paul Delaroche: Herodias (1843)

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Caroline Stelzner (1808 - 1875), 1843

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Drawing for a Life - Preserving Coffin

Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark OfficeSeries: Utility Patent Drawings

This document shows a color patent drawing for a wooden coffin with a small, round window and mechanisms for opening the window and the coffin itself.  There is a drawing of the open coffin and two cross sections showing the details of the mechanism.  The test reads, “Life Preserving Coffin; in Doubtful Case of Actual [strikethrough] Death.  By Christian Henry Eisenbrandt Of Baltimore City and County State of Maryland.  Patented Nov. 15th 1843 [handwritten].”  The document also has a notation that it is patent number 3335.

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~ Antonio María Esquivel, Portrait of Filomena Sanchez Salvador de la Mancha-Real, c.1843 (detail)

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