Charles Vincent Walker (nonfiction)

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Charles Vincent Walker FRS (20 March 1812 – 24 December 1882) was an English electrical engineer and publisher, and a major influence on the development of railway telecommunications.

He sent the first submarine telegraph message on 13 October 1848 over a 2-mile (3.2 km) cable from Folkestone to a ship and back.

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