printing telegraphy

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  • White House Telegraph Room, 1898
    In telegraph: Printing telegraphs

    In 1903 the British inventor Donald Murray, following the ideas of Baudot, devised a time-division multiplex system for the British Post Office. The transmitter used a typewriter keyboard that punched tape, and the receiver printed text. He modified the Baudot Code by assigning…

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