Telegraph School

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At the end of the 19th century, a telegraph school was the name given to institutions for the scientific and technical training of telegraph officers .

The telegraph school in Berlin emerged from a technical school established by the Prussian telegraph administration in 1859 , which had the purpose of providing theoretical and practical training for all telegraph officials after they had acquired the necessary prior knowledge and skills at a telegraph office .

As a result of the advances made in the scientific field of telegraphy, the telegraph administration transferred the theoretical and practical training of officials required for the local telegraph service to the Oberpostdirektion and allowed only a limited number of such officials to attend the telegraph school who had a sufficient scientific training and according to theirs official conduct justified the expectation that they would benefit from the lectures calculated on a higher level of education and later, after having passed the higher telegraph administration examination, they would be suitable for higher positions in administration.

In 1879 the telegraph school in Berlin was raised to the rank of a technical university . The course was six months; about 40 officials were called up to visit the school every year. A similar institution existed in Paris .