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  <dc:title>Letter from J [Joseph] Hamel, member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Forwarding a copy of his 'Historical account of the introduction of the galvanic and electro-magnetic telegraph', printed in German in St Peterburg [see related material]. Hamel references Baron [Pavel] Schilling's telegraph design and previous efforts to install a cable between Cronstadt [Kronštádt] and Peterhof [Petergof] through the Gulf of Finland prior to Schilling's death. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 November 1860</dc:date>
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