Shib Chandra Nandy, under the supervision of William O'Shaugnessy
(the first Director General of Telegraph) that he sent out the first signal in
the first officially endorsed major telegraph transmission between Diamond
Harbour and Calcutta in 1852. This helped O'Shaugnessy realize the dream of
having a full-fledged telegraphic infrastructure in Bengal, from wiring, to
insulation, to code, to transmission, to reception. It was the trust O'Shaugnessy
had on Nandy that became crucial.
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