Art Resource - AR913566

Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (c1870).

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Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (1876).

Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (1876). George Louis Lesage (1724-1803), Swiss scientist, devised an early form of electric telegraph. It had a separate wire for each letter of the alphabet and a range limited to the distance between two rooms in Lesage's home. FromLes Grandes Inventions (The Great Inventions) by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1876).

Unique Identifier AR913566

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 5409px × 3230px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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