[ISHMap-List] Help with telegraph maps

[Steven Gray]

Good afternoon,

If you want global maps, the navy is a good place to look - both the Royal
and US navy make maps of telegraph and naval stations. Hope that helps,

Steven

Dr Steven Gray, FRGS

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On 29 February 2016 at 21:30, Jon Jablonski <jonjab at ucsb.edu> wrote:

> What an interesting question.  One could get lost.  In my 10 minutes of
> avoiding work that I spent researching this, it’s certainly obvious that
> the development of rail lines and telegraph lines were intimately linked.
> And the interconnection of systems and building of trans-border lines seems
> like a rich research topic.  And both phenomenon grew so quickly, with the
> first commercial electric telegraph 1846, and widespread networks by 1860.
>   Looks like they started figuring out undersea cables about 10 minutes
> after commercial telegraphs became a thing!
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> Did you see this in WorldCat?
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> Map of the submarine telegraph between America & Europe, with its various
> communications on the two continents.
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> Groom, Thomas & Co.  1856 (there’s several variations)
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>                 Note the ‘with its various communication on the two
> continents” subtitle.
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> And this:
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> https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3201p.ct000465/
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> but it would be difficult to trust the map of Europe I suppose – it seems
> pretty sketchy from a data point of view.
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> And what constitutes cross-border in 1850s – 60s Europe?
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> Finally: here is a page out of an 1891 Stielers hand-Atlas:
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>    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1891_Telegraph_Lines.jpg
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> 1891 being a little too late perhaps?  And most likely not the
> scale/resolution you desire.
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> Jon Jablonski
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> *From:* ishm-bounces at lazarus.elte.hu [mailto:ishm-bounces at lazarus.elte.hu]
> *On Behalf Of *Julie Sweetkind-Singer
> *Sent:* Friday, February 26, 2016 10:54 AM
> *To:* ishm at lazarus.elte.hu
> *Cc:* Julie Sweetkind-Singer <juliets at stanford.edu>
> *Subject:* [ISHMap-List] Help with telegraph maps
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> Hi, all,
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> I’ve got a graduate student in economics looking for the following:
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> “I am conducting research on the development of communication system in
> Europe in the 19th century, especially on the evolution of the telegraph
> and railroad networks between 1800s and 1850s. I am looking for some maps
> that can show me the expansion of the network across time.”
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> We have been able to find country-level maps on the telegraph network, but
> are having trouble finding maps that show where the telegraph networks
> spanned country boundaries or at the continental scale in Europe.
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> For example, here’s a useful map of just the UK:
> http://distantwriting.co.uk/telegraphmap.html .
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> Here’s another example:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Bahnkarte_Deutschland_1849.jpg
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> We’ve search on David Rumsey’s site and on Old Maps Online.  I’ve been
> able to find some maps out of our own collection that are at the country
> level, but nothing more general.  Any ideas or leads?
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> Many thanks for any help you can provide.
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> Best,
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> Julie
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