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Article: PIPE ORGANS OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS
- Article from:
- The American Organist
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright American Guild of Organists Oct 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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NATHANIEL J. HOLMES'S "THE HALL"
NATHANIEL JOHN HOLMES, an electrical engineer, was manager of the Electric Telegraph Company's central telegraph station from 1847 to 1849. He was one of the principal electrical engineers who designed domestic and submarine telegraphy in the 1860s, during which time he collaborated in London with the American Confederate naval officer and oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-73). Holmes developed and patented electrically detonated torpedoes used by the Confederate navel forces during the Civil War.1 Holmes was an electrical engineer with the Universal Private Telegraph Company, as well as with many domestic cable companies. He later became an ...