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OUR Government—always the last among European Governments to endow the nation with any benefit resulting from the advance of science—has at length awakened to the fact that the electric current is the scientific modern equivalent for the ancient post-boy, and we are to have a State Telegraph as we have a State Postal system.
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The State Telegraphs . Nature 1, 232–233 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001232a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001232a0