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An Electric moment in time ! A rather seasick looking Guglielmo Marconi (Sc#654 1974) Listens on Signal Hill, Newfoundland, and hears faintly, the 3 x Morse Letters "S" from Poldhu Cornwall England No postmark exists of POLDHU, nearest town Pmk is MULLION Cornwall   |
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Cambodia Sc#2054 2001 900 riel.  Guatamala AIR Sc#C799 1985 04c  Dahomey (Today BENIN) POSTAGE DUE 1967 Sc#J36 3 franc (Morse Receiver)  |
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Guglielmo Marconi - amazing story on 2 places in distance, aerial and ballon. I am seeing the whole picture little by little... before the radio communication, Morse codes were sent via real telegraph lines, which were often owned by private companies who were issuing those telegraph stamps... Is it right?  The triangle stamp from Dahomey - nice one with a receiver. I love the early equipment of how the electrical signals are recorded! Here is a sender. Turkey 1979  |
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Morse codes were sent via real telegraph lines, which were often owned by private companies who were issuing those telegraph stamps... Is it right? Indeed.  |
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First time to see "DIRECT STEAMER" as an instruction.
Googled, saw Mail from Johannesburg.
Direct Steamer via Capetown to New York.
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Direct Steamer Well, Philately always digs historical wordings... This stamp shows the latest communication tools in 1865 and 1965. The guy who is using the Morse key is in a uniform and proudly performing his task. Tunisia 1965  |
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Thank you both Wilding mad and LaoPhil for your contributions!! It seems more Morse and other telegraph stamps were issued than I imagined... New Zealand 9 May 1962 / Centenary of Telegraph in New Zealand / design: A G Mitchell, Wellington  This is one of a pair in this link below, and I haven't seen another one 8d stamp in real yet. It has nice flying punched tapes - has someone got it and show us here? https://collectables.nzpost.co.nz/c...new-zealand/ |
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New Zealand  Sc# 357 1962   NZ Telegraph Despatch Seal  TELEGRAPHIC CODES New Zealand Albany ALY Auckland AK Auckland Telephone Centre ATC Avondale AVD Birkdale BKL Birkenhead BD Blockhouse Bay BHB Browns Bay BSY Christchurch CH Devonport DA Dunedin DN Forrest Hill FOR Glen Eden GLE Glendowie GDW Glenfield GLF Greenhithe GNH Helensville HL Hibiscus Coast HBC Henderson HSN Kumeu KME Mahurangi MHG Mangere MRE Manurewa MNR Massey MSY Matakana MTK Mayoral Drive MDR Mt Albert MABN Mt Eden MOD New Lynn NLN Onehunga ON Otara OAA Otahuhu OH Palmerston North PM Papakura PAK Papatoetoe POP Ponsonby POY Puhoi PUH Pukekohe PUK Putaruru PUT Red Beach RDB Rotorua RO Remuera RUE St Helliers Bay SHB Tamaki TMK Te Atatu TAT Three Kings TIS Waimauku WM Waitakere WAK Waiatarua WUA Warkworth WW Wellesley Street WLT Wellington WN Telegraph Frankings Monograph (G.I.Robertson)  |
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Wow! Thank you Rod!! for the great scan of the counter part of New Zealand stamp (Giant Kiwi + open-air bath  as well) and the codes of all cities! Despatch seal is soooo cute. The modern machine (then) is called "Teleprinter" in the bulletin. That means the punched tape (with tiny dotted line separating larger dots in the middle) was representing the latest thing around that time. This stamp below is 9 years later, and the tape was still relevant media of information, it seems. In fact, my Stanley Gibbons catalogue says "Computer Tape". Was it already in a form of machine so called computer? If so, maybe this thread is bridging and covering an early era of the "Computers, Electronic Devices, Software, Information Technology, And Internet On Stamps" topic in the forum? https://goscf.com/t/73815Poland 2 September 1971 / 6th Polish Technical Congress, Warsaw / design: H. Chylinski  I have searched if I find any code-reading instruction of these tapes, but no success. There are few different versions, such as 2-by-2 dotted raws on the separating line, or 2-by-3 and 3-by-3. If the tapes are already electrically processed, maybe no human readers existed then and no chart of code needed..? I just wanted to read what these flying tapes are saying on the stamp, though. |
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Hi Tomoko, beyond my knowledge, both teleprinter tape, and Computer tape, represent one thing, a language. Be verbal or mathmatic. Personally I feel Teleprinter and Computer tape should be segregated but only a feeling, the educated boffins here may be able to put us straight |
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