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Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke, in England, and Samuel Morse, in the United States, develop the electric telegraph (a forerunner of the telephone)
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William Henry Fox Talbot develops a way of making and printing photographs using reverse images called negatives
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James Clerk Maxwell figures out that radio waves must exist and sets out basic laws of electromagnetism.
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