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George May Phelps
Telegraph and telephone innovator
American Speaking Telephone Co. · Western Union | Associates: Thomas Edison, William Orton, Milo G. Kellogg
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George May Phelps (March 19, 1820 – May 18, 1888) was a 19th-century American inventor of automated telegraphy equipment. He is credited with synthesizing the designs of several existing printers into his line of devices which became the dominant apparatus for automated reception and transmission of telegraph messages.
George May Phelps was born in Watervliet, New York, in 1820. As a youth, he went to work for his uncle Jonas H. Phelps, who made mathematical instruments in Troy, New York.
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