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*[http://www.iranica.com/articles/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.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20070626152039/http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell"] by John Packer ''Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society'' No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. now an archived webpage.
*This An India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-08/1344195424 post] indicates the IETD was sold to Cable and Wireless in 1931.Also includes some names of employees c 1930.<ref>Fuller, Tony. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210118234728/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=786045 Photograph with a lot of names - IETD Station at Bushire, 1930] ''Rootsweb India List'' 5 August 2012, now archived</ref>
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1859SuezKarachi/index.htm 1859 Suez - Aden - Karachi Cable] atlantic-cable.com
**HMS Retribution assisted in laying the first submarine telegraph cable to India, in the section between Karachi and Aden in 1859.[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924026424196#page/n177/mode/2up ''Memories of the Sea'', page 155] by Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald 1913 Archive.org
