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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: In India, Telegrams Were Still Around Until 2013
Description: Today in 2013, the last traditional telegram message went out, decades after telephones and smartphones and text messages and so on. So why were there still telegrams here in the 21st Century? Plus: today in 1885, Sarah Goode became the first Black woman to receive a US patent for her cabinet bed.
It's been 7 years since the last telegram was sent in India: Facts about the ancestor of telephone (India Today)Â
India Marks End of Era with Last Telegram (Voice of America)
Sarah E. Goode (Biography.com)
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