Template:Did you know nominations/Needle telegraph

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 16:31, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Needle telegraph

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... that the needle telegraph built by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber had a needle weighing at least 25 pounds? Source: "This became even worse when in 1834 Gauss and Weber modified their apparatus by incorporating a 25 pound "needle", whose small deflections had to be observed through a telescope." Garratt, p. 275

Reviewed: Heinrich Schütz House (Bad Köstritz)

5x expanded by Spinningspark (talk). Self-nominated at 14:31, 6 May 2020 (UTC).

Article was expanded fivefold within the last seven days, is over the required prose size and has no copyvio concerns. Hook is interesting, AGF on the offline source. QPQ provided, good to go. Kosack (talk) 09:11, 7 May 2020 (UTC)