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Rees's Cyclopaedia Richard Lovell Edgeworth's optical telegraph. Richard Lovell Edgeworth's proposal for an optical telegraph system in Ireland Each indicator was used to display the number of particular unit to form fourfigure number which then represented characters and words via codebook For further explanatory text see entry