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'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.' [72] (105/782)
The record is made up of 1 volume (673 pages). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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TELEGRAPH AND TRAVEL.
[chai 1 ,
favoured with mental capability. Of the suboidinates,
an experience of the iurkish character conirntncing
eighteen years ago leads the present
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
to the belief
that the Turk of 1858-9, whatever his faults, and
whatever the drawbacks over which he had no control,
possessed in an eminent degree those qualities of obedience
and endurance so valuable in the artihcer and woikman.
Before treating the line from Constantinople to
Baghdad as a perfected whole and by the light of two
detailed inspections under British oflicers after comple
tion, it will be well to turn to the official correspondence
in 1859-GO ; while it was still in progress, and before
any definite arrangements had been made for completing
the lower section from Baghdad to Basrah, and thence
to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
cable.
The view taken by the Home authorities ot the
telegraph to India, in respect of the long link through
Asiatic Turkey, at the period of Colonel Biddulph's re
signation, was naturally not hopeful, nor such as to
warrant a hopeful despatch on the subject to the
Government of India. Sir William O'Shaughnessy, then
Superintendent of Telegraphs in India, not only advised
the East India Company as already stated, but had been,
two years before, in personal consultation with Lord
Stratford on the subject, which was therelore familiar to
him. He now put forward a suggestion, transmitted by
the Supreme Government to the Secretary of State, that
the Turkish Government might be induced to receive
the required staff and signallers to carry on and carry
out the work, as a loan from the Government of India,
whose treasury would meet the expenses, ihe sugges
tion was so far supported by the Governor-General of
India in Council, that Sir W. O'Shaughnessy s offer to
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Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.
Author: Colonel Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI. Late Chief Commissioner Indo-European Telegraph; British Commissioner for settlement of the Perso-Baluch Frontier (1870-71) and Arbitrator in the Perso-Afghan boundary question (1872-73).
Publication details: London. Macmillan and Co., 1874. R Clay, Sons and Taylor, printers, Bread Streat Hill.
Physical Description: xiv, [2], 673, [3]p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded): ii, maps, portrait; 23cm (8º).
Ownership: With stamps of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library and embossed stamp of the "Secretary of State for India Library". Marginal ms. annotations in a contemporary hand in ink on pages 101, 194, 196, 264 and 527.
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- 1 volume (673 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references, along with a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is also an index which begins on page 661.
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Dimensions: 232mm x 156mm
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- V 21450
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- 'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:14, 14a:14b, 15:18, 1:8, 8a:8b, 9:144, 144a:144b, 145:186, 186a:186b, 187:324, 324a:324b, 325:516, 516a:516b, 517:648, 648a:648b, 649:676, 1:60, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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- Goldsmid, Sir Frederic John
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