M. Radio and Communication, 1982. — 152 s. : il. It tells about the history of the development of electric telegraph communication, the participation of telegraph workers in the pre-revolutionary labor movement, during the Great October Socialist Revolution, as well as the Great Patriotic War. Particular attention is paid to the development and improvement of means of telegraph communication on the basis of automation of production processes and the use of electronic equipment . Information on channel-forming equipment, modern automatic switching telegraph stations, electronic roll telegraphs, facsimile equipment, the technique of transmitting newspapers through communication channels is given, the prospects for the development of telegraph communication are presented. For a wide range of telegraph workers.