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- Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition on 2009-11-09
- Study with the Industrial Revolution Timeline on 2009-11-09
- The Industrial Revolution Timeline on 2009-11-09
- 18th Century Timeline on 2009-11-09
- The Industrial Revolution: A Timeline on 2009-11-09
- BBC - History: Victorians--technology on 2009-11-09
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BBC - History communication on 2009-11-09
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The spread of railways stimulated communication, and Rowland Hill's standardisation of postal charges in 1839 saw a boom in mail services. But this was nothing compared to the revolution of the telegraph. If you think the internet is big (and given you're reading this online the chances are you do) then just imagine how much bigger it would seem if you had never before seen a computer or telephone. That's what the telegraph was to the Victorians. If rail travel shrank the country, the telegraph crushed it. It opened in the 1840s and soon went stratospheric - within ten years exchanging telegrams had become part of everyday life. By the mid 1860s London was connected with New York and ten years later messages could be exchanged between London and Bombay in minutes.
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- BBC - History - British History in depth: Seven Wonders of the Industrial World on 2009-11-09
- Ironbridge Gorge Museum - Objects that changed our world on 2009-11-09
- Ironbridge Gorge Museum - Our Collections on 2009-11-09
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