British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company
GPTKB entity
Properties (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:Telecommunications_company
|
| gptkbp:dissolved |
1869
Financial difficulties |
| gptkbp:founded |
1852
|
| gptkbp:founder |
gptkb:William_Fothergill_Cooke
Charles_Wheatstone |
| gptkbp:headquarters |
gptkb:London
|
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company
|
| gptkbp:impact |
Influence on global telegraphy
Development_of_telecommunication_in_the_UK |
| gptkbp:industry |
Telecommunications
|
| gptkbp:keyPeople |
gptkb:William_Fothergill_Cooke
Charles_Wheatstone |
| gptkbp:legacy |
Pioneering telecommunication technology
|
| gptkbp:location |
gptkb:Ireland
gptkb:United_Kingdom |
| gptkbp:notableEvent |
First transatlantic telegraph cable
Expansion_into_Ireland |
| gptkbp:parentCompany |
gptkb:British_Telegraph_Company
|
| gptkbp:partnerships |
gptkb:Western_Union
|
| gptkbp:productionYears |
1852-1869
|
| gptkbp:relatedPatent |
gptkb:Western_Union
gptkb:Cable_and_Wireless gptkb:Eastern_Telegraph_Company gptkb:British_Telegraph_Company Telegraph companies Companies dissolved in the 1860s Companies established in the 1850s Companies involved in commercial communication Companies involved in commercial telecommunication Companies involved in communication technology Companies involved in community communication Companies involved in crisis communication Companies involved in cultural communication Companies involved in disaster communication Companies involved in educational communication Companies involved in electrical engineering Companies involved in emergency communication Companies involved in government communication Companies involved in industrial communication Companies involved in infrastructure development Companies involved in international communication Companies involved in land communication Companies involved in maritime communication Companies involved in military communication Companies involved in private communication Companies involved in public communication Companies involved in public safety communication Companies involved in railway communication Companies involved in scientific communication Companies involved in social communication Companies involved in technological communication Companies involved in telegraphy Historical telecommunication companies International telecommunication companies Defunct_companies_in_Ireland Defunct_companies_in_the_UK Telecom_companies_in_Ireland Telecom_companies_in_the_UK |
| gptkbp:serviceArea |
gptkb:British_Isles
|
| gptkbp:services |
Telegraph services
|
| gptkbp:serviceType |
Commercial telegraphy
|
| gptkbp:successor |
gptkb:British_and_Irish_Telegraph_Company
gptkb:Western_Union |
| gptkbp:technology |
Electrical telegraph
Magnetic telegraph |
| gptkbp:type |
Public company
|