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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).
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