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The Universal Private Telegraph Company, Limited was formed in 1861〔The company's technology had already been in use since 1860 but the company was not statutorily incorporated until 1861.〕 to exploit Professor Charles Wheatstone’s 1858 ''Universal Telegraph''. The company was to "...carry out a system by which banks, merchants, public bodies and other parties may have the means of establishing a telegraph for their own private purposes from their houses to their offices, manufactories or other places".〔(The Universal Telegraph: Lost Future of Telegraphy by Steven Roberts. ) distantwriting.co.uk 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2011. (Archived here. )〕 The company's first directors were Charles Wheatstone and William Fairbairn, CE, the Manchester ironmaster. It employed Thomas Page, engineer, Lewis Hertslet, secretary and Nathaniel Holmes, electrician.〔 ==Archives== As a nationalised company, the firm's records are now in the British Telecom Archives.
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