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Sir William Slingo (c1856-1935), Engineer-in-Chief of the Post Office
When only twenty-one years of age he founded the Telegraphic School of Science at the General Post Office, and later became its principal.
1887 Central Telegraph Office, St. Martin'sle-Grand, E.C.
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