• telegraph companies founded in the 1860s, and cites Sir John Pender as the founder. In 1869, Pender founded the Falmouth, Malta, Gibraltar Telegraph Company...
    24 KB (2,440 words) - 12:16, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Telegraph Act 1868
    The Telegraph Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 110) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It paved the way for the British state to take over telegraph...
    2 KB (121 words) - 17:30, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Telegraph Act 1885
    The Telegraph Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 58) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It became law on 14 August 1885. It was considered to...
    3 KB (327 words) - 13:41, 13 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Optical telegraph
    describes in detail the functioning of a Chappe telegraph line. In Hector Malot's novel Romain Kalbris (1869), one of the characters, a girl named Dielette...
    70 KB (8,985 words) - 00:01, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom
    the Post Office argued telephone messages counted as telegraph messages under the Telegraph Act 1869, so private companies so could not set up telephone...
    113 KB (16,232 words) - 01:37, 24 October 2023
  • The year 1869 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. November 4 – The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published...
    7 KB (717 words) - 14:31, 23 November 2023
  • Western Electric (category American companies established in 1869)
    and manufacturing company officially founded in 1869. A subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for most of its lifespan, it served as...
    99 KB (9,050 words) - 01:15, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Transatlantic telegraph cable
    Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is an obsolete form of communication...
    47 KB (5,960 words) - 05:13, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of telegraphy in Australia
    and Cardwell in June 1869. At the same time extending inland to the newly established pastoral areas. In 1855 the Electric Telegraph department handled...
    31 KB (3,705 words) - 02:58, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Émile Baudot
    the French Post & Telegraph Administration as an apprentice operator in 1869. The telegraph service trained him in the Morse telegraph and also sent him...
    14 KB (1,738 words) - 19:10, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rafael Izquierdo y Gutiérrez
    24, 1820 as his date of birth. Diccionario biográfico de parlamentarios de Andalucía, 1810-1869: H Rafael Gerónimo Cayetano Izquierdo's Baptismal Register...
    9 KB (713 words) - 05:24, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joe Biden
    17, 2022. "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Section-By-Section" (PDF). Politico. Retrieved August 17, 2022. DeBonis, Mike; Caldwell, Leigh Ann (June 21...
    383 KB (30,512 words) - 03:19, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Promontory, Utah
    Promontory, Utah (category Populated places established in 1869)
    faded into obscurity". Stanford University loaned the original 1869 gold spike to Cecil B. DeMille for the film Union Pacific (1939). It was held aloft in...
    22 KB (2,732 words) - 18:41, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ffestiniog Railway
    spelling is in the official title of the company in the local act, the Festiniog Railway Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4. c. xlviii) that created the railway. It...
    54 KB (7,127 words) - 12:14, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me
    Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me (category 1869 songs)
    in odd and conspicuous places, even on the telegraph wires, and in no time the public was crazy over the act and 'business was great.' E.M. Hall has a...
    9 KB (1,131 words) - 04:47, 19 April 2024
  • true story of Mary Ann Cotton, Britain's first serial killer". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2016...
    44 KB (1,922 words) - 03:53, 11 April 2024
  • Agency. Retrieved 5 February 2022. Elston, M. A. (2004). "Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press...
    162 KB (18,013 words) - 17:32, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for De Beers
    2008. "Anglo American buys Oppenheimer family stake in De Beers for $5.1 billion". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved...
    60 KB (6,143 words) - 20:12, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reign of Alfonso XII
    Juan de la Pezuela, Count of Cheste, but he had to resign shortly afterwards, feeling disavowed by the letter sent to the ex-Queen in April 1869 by members...
    296 KB (40,032 words) - 05:24, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Around the World in Eighty Days
    Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is...
    45 KB (5,097 words) - 20:06, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Factory Acts
    Retrieved 28 March 2018. "Important Case under the Factory Act". Bradford Daily Telegraph. 29 August 1879. p. 2. "Second Reading". Hansard House of Commons...
    146 KB (16,598 words) - 22:48, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orpheus in the Underworld
    bouffon of 1858 into a four-act opéra féerie extravaganza, with substantial ballet sequences. This version opened at the Théâtre de la Gaîté on 7 February...
    83 KB (8,797 words) - 00:49, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Submarine Cable Act of 1888
    cable in international waters. The Act of Congress acknowledge the Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cable of 1884 necessitating the international...
    20 KB (2,052 words) - 18:17, 4 January 2024
  • its telegraph exchanges. It was confirmed in 1880 that the 1869 Act included telephony even though the telephone had not been invented when the Act was...
    125 KB (11,572 words) - 02:03, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1868 United States presidential election
    Reconstruction era Third Party System 1868–1869 United States House of Representatives elections 1868–1869 United States Senate elections Ohio idea "National...
    49 KB (3,983 words) - 19:27, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Johnson (Tennessee)
    Robert Johnson (Tennessee) (category 1869 deaths)
    Robert Johnson (February 22, 1834 – April 22, 1869) was the fourth-born child of Andrew Johnson and Eliza McCardle, a lawyer by profession, one-term Tennessee...
    51 KB (5,337 words) - 03:34, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Patronages of Saint George
    Parliament, in an enormous mosaic created by Sir Edward John Poynter in 1869, depicting St George and the Dragon with these arms, entitled "St George...
    40 KB (4,879 words) - 02:14, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Suez Canal
    Suez Canal (category Canals opened in 1869)
    Ferdinand de Lesseps formed the Compagnie de Suez for the express purpose of building the canal. Construction of the canal lasted from 1859 to 1869. The canal...
    126 KB (14,149 words) - 03:39, 23 April 2024
  • List of Latin phrases (full) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of a Soul, pp. 154–155 "T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket, act 1, scene 1". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-24. "annus horribilis"...
    2 KB (3,520 words) - 06:47, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1860s
    1860s (redirect from 1860–1869)
    Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1860, and ended on December 31, 1869. The decade was noted for featuring numerous major societal shifts in the...
    19 KB (1,905 words) - 09:50, 21 April 2024