Telegraphy - Russia Statute on the Acceptance and Carriage of Telegraphic Dispatches on the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Lines of Russia. And: (XXII) Supplements to the Statute... And: Supplement to the ... Statute. With 25 lithograph. Cartoons, of which 2 folded and border-coloured, as well as numerous, partly lithograp. Forms, diagrams and tab. o. O. (St. Petersburg), Druck der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1855. 4°. 86 (6) p., 41 (4) fol. (mostly double), 14 p., (20) fol. paperback d. Zt. with hs. spine label. First regulation, richly illustrated with maps, on the still young telegraph traffic in Russia. - After the first telegraph connections had been established in the early 1840s from the Tsar's Winter Palace under the direction of the Prussian engineer Moritz Herman von Jakobi by means of underground cabling, the network was extended in the following years (including to Moscow in the course of the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow railway line). In 1851, regular nationwide telegraph traffic began, and in 1853 the German company Siemens & Halske was awarded the contract for its further expansion. This statute, published in German, was the first regulatory text for the new communication technology and was officially approved on 15 January 1855. 3 months later, the first telegraph office of the Tsarist Empire was opened in St. Petersburg. The transmission of messages was already based on the code invented by Samuel Morse in 1837, whose character set for the Russian alphabet is shown on sheet 29r of the supplement (probably for the first time ever in print). - The maps show the entire network of telegraph lines, stations and all tariff zones. - Of great rarity, both in institutional collections and in the trade. Only 3 copies traceable for us via WorldCat and KVK (Wisconsin UL, UCLA, St. Petersburg (NLR) and never before auctioned. - O. V. Makhrovskiy, "180 Years of telecommunication in Russia", 2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON), Pavia, Italy, 2012, pp. 1-6. Telegraph. - Russia. - With 25 lithographed maps, of which 2 folded and coloured, as well as numerous, partly lithographed forms, diagrams and tables First, profusely illustrated regulation on electromagnetic telegraphy in Tsarist Russia. - After the first telegraph connections had been established under the surveillance of Prussian born engineer Moritz Herman Jakobi during the early 1840s, starting from the Tsar's Winter Palace by means of underground cabling, the network was extended in the following years (including to Moscow, in the course of the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow railway line). In 1851, regular nationwide telegraph traffic began, and in 1853 the German company Siemens & Halske was awarded the contract for its further expansion. Present statute finally represents the first regulatory text for the new communication technology and was officially approved on 15 January 1855. 3 months later, the first telegraph office of the Tsarist Empire was opened in St. Petersburg. The transmission of messages was already based on the code invented by Samuel Morse in 1837, whose character set for the Russian alphabet is shown on lv. 29r of the appendix (probably for the first time ever in print). - The maps show the entire network of Russian telegraph lines, stations and all tariff zones. - Of great rarity, both in institutional collections and in the trade. Only 3 copies traceable for us via WorldCat and KVK (Wisconsin UL, UCLA, St. Petersburg (NLR) and never before auctioned.