Today in 1890, Thomas Edison received a patent for the Quadruplex Telegraph, his most important telegraph invention.
It transmitted and received four independent signals over a single wire, two in one direction and two in the opposite direction. It allowed Western Union to increase the number of messages the company could send without building new lines …
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