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| Title | A Handbook of Practical Telegraphy |
| Author | Richard Spelman Culley |
| Edition | 8 |
| Publisher | Longmans, 1885 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 4 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 442 pages |
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