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*[http://myphilately.com/fil_view.php?file_id=61062&t=science&tfr= First Day cover: Indo-European Telegraph Line- centenary] 9 November 1967. It is not clear what event occurred 9 November 1867.
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[[Image:Telegraph Office, Calcutta.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Telegraph Office , Calcutta]]
====Indo-European Telegraph Department====
*[httphttps://wwwiranicaonline.iranica.comorg/articles/indo-european-telegraph-department Indo-European Telegraph Department in Iran] Encyclopaedia Iranica. Construction commenced 1863. 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.
*An India List 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/CableCos/TelegraphIsland/index.htm Telegraph Island The Indo-European Telegraph 1863-65] atlantic-cable.com
**[http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29761017 The hardship posting to end all hardship postings] by Matthew Teller 24 October 2014. The telegraph station on Jazirat Al-Maqlab (Maqlab Island), now known as Telegraph Island. bbc.com/news
*India Office Records at the [[British Library]] [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlpwd&cid=1-7#1-7 Indo-European Telegraph Department '''IOR/L/PWD/7'''] 1865-1931
*[https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266157 ''The formation of the Indo-European telegraph line : Britain, the Ottoman Empire and Persia 1855-1865''] by Suliman Shahvar 1997 Thesis (Ph.D.) School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), British Library EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)
====The Indo-European Telegraph Company====
*[httphttps://wwwiranicaonline.iranica.comorg/articles/indo-european-telegraph-company Indo-European Telegraph Company] (iranica.comEncyclopaedia Iranica) was privately owned and operated by the Siemens Company. Telegrams along this route commenced from India to London in January 1870
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/Indo-Eur/index.htm The Indo-European Telegraph Company] by Steven Roberts Also includes brief information about the Indo-European Telegraph Department atlantic-cable.com
*[httphttps://124insa.108nic.19.235:12000in/jspuiwritereaddata/bitstreamUpLoadedFiles/123456789/11673/1IJHS/Vol26_3_3_AKarbelashvili.pdf "Europe-India Telegraph “Bridge” via the Caucasus"] by Andre Karbelashvili ''Indian Journal of History of Science 26 (3) 1991'', pages 277-281. Alternatively from [httphttps://www.insa.nic.in/UI/Archivesection.aspx Archives at Indian National Science Academy Journals].*[https://www.istampgallery.com/indo-european-telegraph-line-centenary/ A Commemorative postage stamp on the Centenary of the Indo-European Telegraph Service] issued 9 November 1967. istampgallery.com. This stamp probably relates to the foundation of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, or commencement of construction of it's line. Image of First Day cover.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210125212854/https://www.collectorbazar.com/item/india-first-day-cover-indo-european-telegraph-line-centenary-1967-f1037-123753/ Image of First Day cover, Centenary of the Indo-European Telegraph Service] collectorbazar.com, archived.</ref>
==== Bombay - Aden – Suez Cable====
