Post and Telegraphs Department

Tea District Post and Telegraph Department photographed by Samuel Cleland Davidson

Entry

• Entrance requirements c 1871 Telegraph Department India were withdrawn, page 169 and page 496 Index Scholasticus: Sons and daughters. A guide to parents in the choice of educational institutions, preparatory to professional or other occupation of their children by R. Kemp Philp 1872 Archive.org

External links

• Communications in India Wikipedia

Indo-European Telegraph

Telegraph Office , Calcutta

Indo-European Telegraph Department

• Indo-European Telegraph Department in Iran Encyclopaedia Iranica. While the IETD was an autonomous department for much of its existence, between February 1888 and April 1893, it was under direct auspices of the Director General of Indian Telegraphs. The IETD was dissolved in March 1931. There was significant intermarriage with Iranian Armenians.
  • "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell" by John Packer Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. html version, original pdf
• 1859 Suez - Aden - Karachi Cable atlantic-cable.com
• Indian Cables by Bill Glover atlantic-cable.com includes
  • Persian Gulf cables of 1864
  • 1869 Duplicate Cable

The through line to London opened to the public in March 1865

• 1864 Karachi - Bushire Cable atlantic-cable.com
• Telegraph Island The Indo-European Telegraph 1863-65 atlantic-cable.com
• First Day cover: Indo-European Telegraph Line- centenary 9 November 1967. It is not clear what event occurred 9 November 1867.
• India Office Records at the British Library Indo-European Telegraph Department IOR/L/PWD/7 1865-1931

The Indo-European Telegraph Company

• Indo-European Telegraph Company (iranica.com) was privately owned and operated by the Siemens Company. Telegrams along this route commenced from India to London in January 1870
• The Indo-European Telegraph Company by Steven Roberts Also includes brief information about the Indo-European Telegraph Department atlantic-cable.com
• "Europe-India Telegraph “Bridge” via the Caucasus" by Andre Karbelashvili Indian Journal of History of Science 26 (3) 1991 ,pages 277-281 html version, original pdf

Bombay - Aden – Suez Cable

• 1870 British - Indian Cable (Bombay - Aden - Suez) by Bill Glover atlantic-cable.com

Records

British Library

• Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Telegraph Department candidates' application papers 1877-1878 IOR/L/PWD/2/220
• Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Telegraph Department candidates' application papers 1865-1869 IOR/L/PWD/8/6

Individuals

• Dr. William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (1809-1889) - laid the first telegraph system in Asia in addition to his work as a doctor who discovered a modern treatment for cholera, and introduced cannabis to Western medicine.

Memoir of Surgeon-Major Sir W. O'Shaughnessy Brooke ... in connection with the early history of the telegraph in India by M Adams 1889 Archive.org

• Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Stewart, R.E. Director-General of the Indo-European Telegraph atlantic-cable.com
  

As part of the Telegraph Department, he played a significant role in the Indian Mutiny. He left England, at the close of 1863, to superintend the laying of the Indo-European sea-cable along the coast of Beloochistan and Persia. He died 16 January 1865 having just accomplished the most difficult part of his task by the completion of the telegraphic line from Bagdad, to Bushire.

• Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith 1835-1900 an officer in the Royal Engineers who was seconded at the time to work on the development of the Persian telegraph, and became its Director. kilmarnockacademy.co.uk
• '"A chronological biography of Edward Graves" of the IETD, murdered 2 December 1897 html version, original pdf dandadec.co.uk