Buy this book on-line HARFIELD, ALAN: : PIGEON TO PACKHORSEUK.CHIPPENHAM.PICTON PUB.LTD.,1989. ISBN 0948251425.
UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn.8vo,viipp+frontis,114pp.B/w
photographs,line drawings.Information and
illustrations mainly from the Royal Signals Museum.
The book traces the history of animals in
communications from the change brought about by the invention and then use of the
electric telegraph during the Crimean War,
1854.
Chapters on the Telegraph troop, animal transport in India,the Cable Wagon and Cart,camels and communications,advent
of wireless,messenger dogs and the Pigeon
Service.
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