News – Baron Paul Julius Reuter – Aachen, West Germany - from our story 'Pigeons: A pictorial history of humanity and the urban bird'

Baron Paul Julius Reuter, who founded Reuters 112 years ago with a pigeon post service at Aachen, West Germany; the following year he moved his headquarters to London and became one of the first men to transmit news internationally by the then new ‘electric telegraph’. Two thousand pigeons released simultaneously in the ancient Rhineland city … Continue reading "News – Baron Paul Julius Reuter – Aachen, West Germany"

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