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On This Day: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first... (1816)
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On August 5, 1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
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