The telegraph manual: a complete history and description of the semaphoric, electric and magnetic telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, ancient and modern.

472 THE MORSE TELEGRAPH ALPHABET.
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THE AUSTRO-GERMANIC MORSE ALPHABET.
The Austro-Germanic alphabet adopted for the Morse system of telegraphing is, with some amendments, in the service
of nearly all the governments of Europe, and, in fact, wherever
the German or Latin letter is used. It is the same language
in all Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, the
Italian States, Sardinia, Spain, Malta, Corfu, North Africa, &c.
This alphabet differs from the combination of the dots and
spaced letters of the American telegraphic alphabet. In the
European there are no spaced letters, and there is less liability
of error than in the American, though it requires more time to
transmit by the former than by the latter.
The Austro-Germanic Alphabet of 1854, herewith presented,
has been engraved much larger than the usual letter made in
the ordinary telegraphic manipulation in Germany. I have
copied the alphabet, as officially published by Prussia, Denmark, and the other German states, as used in 1854. Since
then the alphabet has been amended, so as to accommodate
special letters, common to other languages on the continent.
I have added the new combination, as now used all over
Europe under the name of the European Morse Alphabet.
AUSTRO-GERMANIC MORSE ALPHABET OF 1854.
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