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===Morkrum=== [[Morkrum]] made their first commercial installation of a printing telegraph with the Postal Telegraph Company in Boston and New York in 1910.<ref>{{cite book |author=Colin Hempstead, William E. Worthington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wkIlnNjDWcC&pg=PA605 |title=Encyclopedia of 20th-century technology |year=2005 |page=605 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781579584641}}</ref> It became popular with railroads, and the [[Associated Press]] adopted it in 1914 for their [[wire service]].<ref name="Colin Hempstead, William E. Worthington 2005 605"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baudot.net/teletype/MPT.htm |title=Morkum Printing Telegraph Page Printer |access-date=August 22, 2011}}</ref> Morkrum merged with their competitor Kleinschmidt Electric Company to become Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Corporation shortly before being renamed the Teletype Corporation.<ref name="Queensland">{{cite web |url=http://www.telemuseum.org/teleprinters.html |title=Queensland Telecommunications Museum β Teleprinters |publisher=Queensland Telecommunications Museum}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/morkrumsystemofp00earl |title=The Morkrum System of Printing Telegraphy |author=Earle, Ralph H. |year=1917 |location=Chicago |publisher=Armour Institute of Technology (thesis)}}</ref>
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