On 04/07/2011 08:57 AM, Invisible wrote:

> Even more than whether it was "feasible", I was wondering whether it's
> an idea that anyone would have even thought of. Did people know enough
> about electricity to realise that you could use it to transmit information?

It appears the earliest telegraph experiments happened somewhere around 
this time-frame. I don't know how widely-known they were at the time though.

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