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Catalogue description 1 item extracted from BT 1/504 /982/1853. 'The Electric Telegraph Company. Telegraph...
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| Reference: | MPI 1/142 |
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| 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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