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aug 5, 1816 - First Major Electrical Engineering Begins

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Francis Ronalds develops the first electrical telegraph but is rejected by the wider community.

Elements of his plans would be used twenty years later in the first commerically sucesfull telegaph.

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Date:

aug 5, 1816
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~ 209 years ago