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Historical sources

Written sources

  1. Sources on the significance of electrical telegraphy, 19th century

  2. Riepl’s explanations, 1913

 

Visual sources

  1. Chinese cart, 1st century AD

  2. Transportation of letter mail, 12th century

  3. Medieval messenger carrying letter mail

  4. Letter from the Great Khan to the Japanese King, 1266

  5. Travelling Mongolian sovereign, around 1320

  6. Illustration of pigeon post, 1451

  7. Portolan chart, 1535

  8. Postman, 16th century

  9. Advertisement for US-American Pony Express, around 1860

  10. Sabotage of telegraph lines, American Civil War, around 1863

  11. Photography: American Civil War, around 1865

  12. Electrical telegraphy during Franco-Prussian-War, 1870/71

  13. Attack on the telegraph station Barrow’s Creek (Australia), 1874

  14. Telegraph station, Kilwi (East Africa), 1901

  15. Telephone advertisement, USA, 1920s

 

Artefacts

  1. Monument for the about 20 000 post pigeons killed during WW I, Lilles