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COMMENTS
ON
DR. HAMEL’S
“HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
OF THE
Introduction of the Galvanic and
Electro-Magnetic Telegraph”
INTO ENGLAND.

The “Historical Account of the Introduction of the Galvanic and Electro-Magnetic Telegraph,” lately published in England, by Dr. Hamel, of St. Petersburgh, is a work of permanent historical value.

It has been written with the declared object of claiming for his countryman, Baron Schilling, and for his country, Russia, the honour of the first realization of