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| | New Brunswick Sources, 1849 |
 | | (U. Patents No. 5,957, Dec 5, 1848, and No. 6,328, April 17, 1849.) This employed perforated strips of paper to effect automatic transmission by contact made through the perforations in place of the key, while a chemically prepared paper at the opposite end of the line was discolored by the electrical impulses to form the record. |
 | | One of the slower trips was made by Canada, which arrived at Halifax late in the evening of Thursday, March 15th, 1849, in 12 days 10 hours from Liverpool — and the AP horse express reached the chartered boat about 8:30am Friday. |
 | | The Halifax Novascotian of 18 June 1849 carried this (reprinted from the previous issue, 13th June): "During the afternoon (of June 8th) the first post [pole] of the Electric Telegraph was erected on the North of the Common, and three cheers vociferously given by the assembled multitude for the success of the Telegraph Company. |
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