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Electric Telegraph Company 1846 - 1855
- occupation:
- Communications company
- Nationality:
- British
1846 - Founded by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and John Lewis Ricardo. 1855 - merged with the International Telegraph Company to become the Electric and International Telegraph Company. 1870 - the EITC was taken over by the General Post Office (GPO)