Catalogue description 1 item extracted from BT 1/504 /982/1853. 'The Electric Telegraph Company. Telegraph...

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Details of MPI 1/142
Reference: MPI 1/142
Description:

1 item extracted from BT 1/504/982/1853. 'The Electric Telegraph Company. Telegraph lines of central Europe. 1852': map of central and western Europe, also showing principal towns and railways, both open and under construction. Reference table. Scale: 2.6 inches to 93 miles; scale bars also in French, Belgian and German units. Lithographed by Day & Son. With coloured MS additions explained by a note: 'The Blue Margin shews the Countries whose Governments have acceded to the Continental Convention'. Endorsed: 'Map to accompany Captain Galton's Memorandum on the Electric Telegraph Minute No. 982 1853'.

Date: 1852-1853
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: BT 9/7
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Dimensions: 58 cm x 77 cm
Map scale: 1:2266338
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 123.

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