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Telegraphy in France
Telegraphy in France began with the Chappe optical semaphore network of the 1790s, which was replaced between 1845 and 1855 by a state-built electric telegraph network that grew nationwide.
Telegraphy in Germany
Telegraphy in Germany developed from a Prussian optical signaling line of the 1830s into a state-run electric network that by 1883 handled over 16.7 million telegrams a year.
Telegraphy in the United Kingdom
Telegraphy in the United Kingdom began in 1837, when Cooke and Wheatstone's electric telegraph served the Euston–Camden Town railway, and was nationalized under the Post Office in 1870.
Tennant Creek
Tennant Creek is a town in the Barkly Region of the Northern Territory, Australia, 505 km north of Alice Springs, founded in 1934 after a gold rush.
Trans-Siberian telegraph line
The trans-Siberian telegraph line was built by Russia in the 1860s along the Siberian postal tract, linking European Russia to the Pacific at the Amur River.
Washington–Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System
The Washington–Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS) was the U.S. Army Signal Corps network of cable, telegraph, and wireless stations linking Alaska from 1900.
Yukon Telegraph Trail
The Yukon Telegraph Trail is the route of an overland telegraph line built by Canada between Ashcroft, British Columbia, and Dawson City, completed in 1901 to link the Klondike gold fields.