The telegram below was sent in 1863 from Bristol to London using the Electric and International Telegraph Company.
The Electric Telegraph Company was the world's first public telegraph company, founded in 1846. It merged with the International Telegraph Company (ITC) in 1854 to become the Electric and International Telegraph Company.
The company was nationalised by the British government in 1870 under the Telegraph Act 1868 along with most other British telegraph companies. The Telegraph Act 1870 extended the 1868 Act to include the Isle of Man Telegraph Company and the Jersey and Guernsey Telegraph Company, but excluded the Submarine Telegraph Company and other companies which exclusively operated international cables.
The Electric Telegraph Company formed the largest component of the resulting state monopoly run by the GPO.See also http://somersetph.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-electric-and-international.html.
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