DocumentCode
282801
Title
Soemmering, Schilling, Cooke and Wheatstone, and the electric telegraph
Author
Burns, R.W.
fYear
1988
fDate
1-3 Jul 1988
Firstpage
70
Lastpage
79
Abstract
Baron Montgelas of Dillingen had been very impressed by the Chappe telegraph which was used extensively during the Napoleonic campaigns and on 5th July 1809 he asked Dr. S.T. Soemmering to obtain proposals for a telegraph system. Baron Schilling, attached to the Russian Mission at Munich, became interested in Soemmering´s work and between them they constructed as had Cooke and Wheatstone in England. The author looks at the telegraphs made by these four men
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
History of Electrical Engineering, Papers Presented at the Sixteenth I.E.E. Week-End Meeting on the
Conference_Location
Twickenham
Type
conf
Filename
206263
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