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telegraphic codes
signal codes
| date | title | category | compiler; notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1833 | The Hooghly River Code, Adapted for General Use of the Semaphore Stations on or near its banks... | signal; India | Charles L. Smart. Calcutta. |
| 1845 | Secret Corresponding Vocabulary | general | Francis O. J. Smith |
| 1845 | The Telegraph Dictionary, and Seamen’s Signal Book | signal, general | Henry J. Rogers |
| 1846 | Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Vocabulary; or, Condensing Correspondent no scan available; links to specimen pages and description |
cotton, etc. | John Wills, Baltimore |
| 1850 | The floral telegraph; or Affection’s signals, by the Late Captain Marryatt. | romance; floral | London; authorship uncertain; (links direct to hathitrust) |
| 1850 | Telegraphic Congressional Reporter. | news reporting | John Wills, Baltimore; (links direct to internet archive) |
| 1852 | The Brachial Telegraph | nautical and miscellaneous |
Capt. Robert W. Jenks |
| 1853 | The Traveler’s Vade Mecum | general | A. C. Baldwin |
| 1856 | Diccionario telegráfico / mandado formar a la Dirección General de Telégrafos por Real Orden de 13 de diciembre de 1856. | government | links directly to Universidad Complutense de Madrid copy/scan, via hathitrust |
| 1866 | Diccionario telegrafico | government | Imprenta Imperial, Mexico |
| 1868 | Bolton’s Patent Code | general (figure) | Francis John Bolton, London |
| 1868 | O. B. Graham & Co.’s Telegraphic Code, New Orleans | cotton | Manchester, New Orleans |
| 1869 | Universal Code for Telegraphing by Cypher | figure | JF,Liverpool |
| 1870 | Telegraph Code, to Ensure Secresy in the Transmission of Telegrams | figure | Robert Slater |
| 1871 | Private Telegraphic Code. R. G. Musgrove & Son. | cotton | New Orleans and Liverpool |
| 1871 | Code [of abbreviations to be used in business telegrams, by W. W. Biggs] | cotton | London |
| 1871 | Dianxin xinfa 電信新法 | Chinese character code | Great Northern Telegraph |
| 1872 | Dianbao xinshu 電報新書 | Chinese character code | S. A. Viguier |
| 1872 | Telegraphic Code. W. H. & A. Stuart, Liverpool. | trade (bacon, cheese, cotton &c.) | links direct to National Library of Scotland copy/scan |
| 1872 | Watts’s Telegraphic Cypher | cotton | Joseph A. D. Watts and Co. |
| 1873 | ABC Telegraphic Code (first edition) | general | Clauson-Thue |
| 1873 | Private Telegraphic Code, Compiled by John Borrowman for the exclusive use of his firm Borrowman, Phillipps, & Co., and their Correspondents (Third Edition) | commodities (grain, maize), commerce | London (BL copy; links directly to google books scan) |
| 1874 | Code télégraphique privé d'une maison de commerce possibly for Borradaile, Schiller & Co. (Calcutta) |
silk, hides &c. (India trade) | impr. de Lemale (Le Havre), 1874 BnF Gallica : 12148/cb333 |
| 1874 | ABC Telegraphic Code (second edition) | general | Clauson-Thue |
| 1874 | Bloomer’s Commercial Cryptograph A Telegraph Code and Double Index—Holocryptic Cipher |
commercial | J. G. Bloomer, San Francisco |
| 1874 | The General Telegraph Code | commercial | H. R. Meyer |
| 1874 | Ralli Brothers’ Code of Telegraphic Ciphers for Use Between England and America “intended to be used with the Indian Code, and with the Supplementary Section of the old American Code having reference to Indian Corn, Lard, Tallow, and Wheat” |
commodities, commerce | Robert W. Jones, comp.; Liverpool (BL copy; links directly to google books scan) |
| 1874 | The Social Code. Second Edition. 238pp | social | Compiled by Robert Dodwell and George Ager; links directly to google books Bodleian permalink |
| 1875 | Beardsley’s Improved Stock Cypher : Designed Especially for the Use of Stock Brokers. front matter + 279pp |
broker | Paul F. Beardsley, comp., (Virgina, Nevada); (UC Berkeley copy, links directly to google books |
| 1875 | General Commercial Telegraphic Code | commercial | William Shephard Wetmore; Shanghae; BL copy |
| 1875 | The International Mercantile Telegraph Code | commercial | H. R. Meyer |
| 1875 | Watt’s Telegraphic Cypher, Revised Edition | cotton | in words of ten letters |
| 1876 | ABC Telegraphic Code (third edition) | general | Clauson-Thue |
| 1876 | Banking Telegraphy... being a Code | banking | Robert Slater |
| 1876 | Three Letter Code for condensed telegraphic and inscrutably secret messages and correspondence | E. Erskine Scott; prospectus | |
| 1877 | Ager’s Shipping Telegraph Code | shipping | Geo. Ager; London |
| 1877 | Telegraphic cypher of Julius Büttner | cotton, rosin | Mobile, Alabama |
| 1878 | The Cotton Telegraph Code (33rd edition) | cotton | H. R. Meyer |
| 1878 | Telegraphic Cipher Code, Especially Adapted to the Cotton Trade | cotton | A. B. Shepperson |
| 1878 | A. Chesebrough’s Private Telegraphic Code | shipping, chartering | San Francisco |
| 1879 | Private Telegraphic Code of Heath & Finnemore, Produce & Commission Merchants | grain, produce | London, Ontario |
| 1879 | J. R. Foster’s Private Telegraphic Code | grain, brokerage | Moncton, N.B. |
| 1879 | The Phillips Telegraphic Code | operator’s code | Walter Polk Phillips |
| 1879 | Private Cable Code for the Timber Trade | lumber, timber | Price & Pierce, London |
| 1879 | Telegraphic Codex (in) Port charges and requirements on vessels | shipping, ship broking | London; Theodore Hunter and Jarvis Patten |
| 1880 | International Telegraphic Code | cotton; figure code | J. A. D. Watts; Liverpool |
| 1880 | Parker’s Combination Code | combination | Thomas Parker, Manchester |
| 1880 | 14,400 Latin Words | roots and inflections | London |
| 1880 | ABC Telegraphic Code (fourth edition) | general | Clauson-Thue |
| 1880 | Ager’s Telegraphic Primer or Skeleton Telegram Code | blank general | George Ager |
| 1880 | The Telegram Code | blank tables | G. Ager, London |
| 1880 | Private Telegraph Code of Hamilton, Fraser & Co. | shipping | Liverpool |
| 1880 | Maguire’s Code of Ciphers | banking & commerce, cipher | Charles H. J. Maquire; Quebec |
| 1880 | Commercial Telegraph Code | general | H. R. Meyer; supplants International Telegraph Code in wake of ITU conference of 1879 |
| 1880 | Law’s mercantile cipher code, in use by subscribers and attorneys of the Canadian Reporting and Collecting Association | mercantile | examples include : mercantile reports, orders, drafts, commissions, collections, life insurance, loans |
| 1880 | Appendix Telegraph Code | blank | H. R. Meyer |
| 1880 | Cypher Code | coffee; River Plate produce | private code, Phipps & Co.; i-xxxvi, 1-318 |
| 1881 | Cypher Code | coffee; River Plate produce | private code, Phipps & Co.; i-vii, 1-276 |
| 1881 | Telegraphic code between John Lysaght : St. Vincent’s Iron Works, Bristol, and [blank]. | iron | links direct to National Library of Scotland copy/scan |
| 1881 | The A.B.C. Domestic Code | general | Henry Harvey |
| 1881 | Macgregor’s Variation Tables for Code Telegraphing | figure code, for telegraphing letters A-O; and “suggestions for tabulated forms” (what Barto calls “Mr Herb’s Numbers”) | |
| 1881 | Whittingham’s Skeleton Telegraph Code | blank | for “ordinary business purposes” |
| 1881 | Wilson’s Ship Broker’s Telegraph Code | grain, cotton | ship brokerage, esp. for American grain and cotton trades |
| 1881 | Private Telegraphic Code with James Adam, Son & Co., Third Edition | produce | Liverpool |
| 1881 | The Standard Telegraphic Cipher Code for the Cotton Trade | cotton | Alfred B. Shepperson, New York |
| 1882 | Telegraphic Code to insure privacy and secrecy in the transmission of telegrams | banking | Frank Miller, compiler. Sacramento |
| 1882 | The Globe Commercial Telegraph Code, for the Use of Mercantile Firms | general | H. R. Meyer, comp. Liverpool |
| 1883 | Scott’s Code : The Ship Owners’ Telegraphic Code | shipping | Reprint of 1880 edition, with supplement/alterations |
| 1883 | Telegraph Code | finance | Preston, Kean & Co. (Chicago) |
| 1883 | The Globe Telegraph Code | blank | E. Garsin (London and New York) |
| 1884 | Nonpareil Telegraphic Code | condenser | Latin verb codewords, for figures 1 –10,000,000 |
| 1884 | Cypher Code for Telegraphy | AAA > ZZZ | Thomas S. Dunn; London |
| 1885 | Harvey’s A. B. C. Domestic Code, with appendix. “Second Edition, 1885.” 14,000 code words of six to ten letters, from Webster’s dictionary; 11,000 filled, 3,000 blank. |
social | Henry Harvey; expansion of 1881 edition; links direct to NYPL scan (hathitrust) |
| 1885 | The Telegram Formula and Code Combiner | combination | Frederic George McCutcheon |
| 1885 | Cable Code . John Crossley & Sons, Ltd. | weaving | carpet weaver |
| 1885 | Telegraphic Cipher | livestock, grain | W.G. Press & Co., Chicago |
| 1885 | Pocket Telegraphic Code | social | W. H. Beer & Co., London |
| 1885 | Sixpenny Telegrams. Scott’s Concise Commercial Code of General Business Phrases | general | for “Inland Telegrams” |
| 1885 | Telegraphic Code | floral | 23 phrases only; The American Florist |
| 1885 | Scott’s Code, “Sixth Edition” | shipowners | — |
| 1885 | Spalding’s Telegram Guide — The Stock Exchange Speculators’ Guide to Cheap Telegrams | stocks | F. W. Spalding, 8pp |
| 1886 | Bloomer’s Commercial Cryptograph A Telegraph Code and Double Index-Holocryptic Cipher |
commercial | J. G. Bloomer, New York; same as 1874, save for different title page design |
| 1887 | Telegraphic Code, The American Educational Catalogue | publishing | Publishers Weekly (July 30, 1887) |
| 1887 | Telegraph & Cable Code, in use between John Paton & Co., New York, and — — | finance, syndications | New York. Benjamin Graham, comp. |
| 1888 | The American mining and stock code. “Kellograph” each phrase has “original” and “duplicate” codeword; 190pp only; 592pp at NYPL |
mining; investment | U Illinois Urbana-Champaign copy, via archive.org; Aaron W. Kellogg, comp. |
| 1888 | Telegraph Code, to Ensure Secresy in the Tranmission of Telegrams | 3rd edn (but unchanged from 1870) | Robert Slater |
| 1888 | Science Observer Code | astronomy; observational | Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. and J. Ritchie, Jr. |
| 1888 | Telegraphic Mining Code | mining | C. Algernon Moreing, comp. |
| 1888 | Code Télégraphique Français | general | A. Coste (Paris) |
| 1889 | Clave telegráfica-telefónica mercantile arreglada para el uso del comercio | general commerce | Monterrey (Nuevo León), México. |
| 1889 | Telegraphic Cipher pp 50-78 of A Brief Sketch of Miner’s Coffee and Spice Mills |
coffee, spice | W. H. Miner, San Francisco |
| 1889 | Unicode, The Universal Telegraphic Phrase Book (Sixth Edition) | commercial, domestic and familiar |
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| 1889 | Proposed Cable Chess Code | chess | O. E. Michaelis; 3-page article in Columbia Chess Chronicle |
| 1889 | Dictionnaire du Langage des Nombres / Dictionary of the Numerical Language |
arithmetical progressions | Georges Boucher de Boucherville, comp.; Quebec |
| 1890 | The Ideographic Code elaborate cipher-building system; examples pp 52-53 |
financial | LoC copy, via archive.org; José Rodriguez, comp. |
| 1890 | The Universal Mining Code |
mining | James Stevens, R. Sydney Corbett; George Ager (codewords) |
| 1890 | Chess Telegraphic Codes |
chess | Edwyn Anthony; prospectus |
| 1891 | 電信符号 明治二十四年三月再版 | general; Japan | 司法省總務局; opens direct to NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/2937955) |
| 1891 | 電信符号録 | general; Japan | 辻籌夫; opens direct to NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/805443) |
| 1891 | The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code | general | |
| 1891 | Private Telegraphic Code | foods, grains, commodities | Williams, Brown &. Co., San Francisco |
| 1891 | The New General Telegraphic Mining Code Code | mining | C. Algernon Moreing and Thomas Neal, comps. |
| 1893 | United States Telegraphic Cipher | produce (fruit, etc) | Joseph H. Wilson, comp. |
| 1893 | Police Telegraph Code of England for 1893 | police | pp544-548 in George W. Hale, Police and Prison Cyclopaedia |
| 1894 |
警察電信符号 [Police Telegraph Code] in 45 sections (イロハ) |
police; Japan | 愛媛県警察部 (Ehime Prefectural Police Department); opens direct to NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/785251) |
| 1894 |
岐阜県用電信符号録 [Gifu prefecture telegraph code record] in 45 sections (イロハ) |
government; Japan | opens direct to NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/805444) |
| 1894 | The Columbian Code, Steinwender, Stoffregen & co., New York. | coffee trade | H. Harvey, comp.; opens to LoC copy (permalink) archive.org |
| 1894 | The Donaldson cipher pp 3-52 of The Donaldson Guide... Showman’s encyclopedia and ... International professional register &c. |
theatrical | opens directly to Northwestern U copy/scan, via hathitrust |
| 1894 | The Adams Cable Codex (Seventh edition) | social; travel | |
| 1894 | Inter-state Cipher | fruit shippers, jobbers | H K Pratt, Minneapolis |
| 1894 | Private Cipher Code | coffee | Castle Bros., San Francisco |
| 1894 | H. & W. Pataky’s Telegraphic Code for use in obtaining and Negociating Patents | patents | Berlin |
| 1895 |
外国為替と電信暗号 [Foreign exchange and telegraph code] general discussionn of code pp 21-31, code at 32-47 |
commercial; forex; Japan | 上田貢太郎 [Ueda Kotaro], comp.; opens direct to NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/804087) |
| 1895 | McNeill’s Code. | mining | New York (reprint of 1895 edition) |
| 1895 | Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code | police | Floyd Shock, comp.; St. Louis, Mo. |
| 1896 | 電信符號字書 / 東京通信社專用 [Telegraph Code, for special use of Tokyo News Agency] code, and sections for names. 166 pp 19世紀に生まれた通信社としては他に、1890年11月に清浦奎吾が警保局の機密費を使って設立した「東京通信社」source |
news agency; Japan | 黒石藤太 [Kuroishi Tota], comp.; opens direct to NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/805442) |
| 1896 | Telegraphic Code | shipping, ship brokerage | Anundjee Roognathjee, Freight Broker, Calcutta; National Library of India, Kolkata scan at archive.org |
| 1896 | The Adams Cable Codex (Ninth edition) | social, general | Boston |
| 1896 | “Unicode” The Universal Telegraphic Phrase-Book | social | same code; format and list of code users different from 1889 edn. |
| 1896 | Cipher Code for Astronomical Messages | astronomy | in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
| 1896 | The Atlas Universal Travelers’ and Tourists’ Telegraphic Cipher Code | general | T. Walter Hartfield |
| 1896 | (Lièber’s) Standard Telegraphic Code | general | |
| 1896 | The Premier Cypher Telegraphic Code | general | William H. Hawke |
| 1896 | The Dynamic Chess Notation | chess | F. Startin Pilleau; Code for telegraphing moves |
| 1897 | Mercuur-code / Mercury Code / Supplement | commercial | Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy; companies, plantations, &c. |
| 1897 | The Robinson Telegraphic Cipher (Revised Edition, probably later than 1897) |
grain, provisions | S L Robinson, Chicago |
| 1897 | Private Telegraphic Cipher Code | investment brokerage | Kerr, Gordon & Co., New York |
| 1898 | 帝国組合電信符号 [Imperial Union telegraph code] major code (504 pages); topic headings, but no ToC |
general; Japan | 土肥克馬 [Doi Katsuma], comp.; opens direct to NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/805302) |
| 1898 | 帝国組合電信符号 増補2版 [Imperial Union telegraph code] second edition of above (518 pages); now includes ToC (haven’t checked for other changes) |
general; Japan | 土肥克馬 [Doi Katsuma], comp.; opens direct to ToC, NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/805303) |
| 1898 | The South Indian Telegraph Code, in English, Tamil and Telegu | commercial; polyglot | P. B. Krishnasawamy Naidu, Merchant and Commission Agent; Madras from collection of Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai |
| 1898 | Kleine Mercuur-Code | social | Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy |
| 1898 | Telegraphic Code pp 529-71 General Machinery Catalogue |
machinery catalogue codes | Niles Tool Works Co., Hamilton, Ohio |
| 1898 | Hunting talking machine telegraphic code | phonograph records & equipment catalogue codes | New York: Bettini Phonograph Library |
| 1898 | Liebèr’s Standard Telegraphic Code | general | 5-L edition would appear in 1915 |
| 1899 | Telegraphic Code, Standard Mercantile Agency (Toronto, Canada) unpaginated, pdf pp 127-142 |
collection and rating agency | from microfilm, Acadia U copy; opens to code at 127 |
| 1899 | ABC Universal Commercial Electric Telegraphic Code | general | fourth edition; “American edition” |
| 1899 | 電信符号 / 電信符獅 [second title from cover, not NDL] 1892年（明治25年）5月10日、時事通信社と新聞用達会社が合併して「帝国通信社」（以下「帝通」）が誕生。初代社長には、新聞用達会社で主幹を務めた竹村良貞が就任した。同社の記事は、政府の方針にそぐわないとして度重なる発行停止処分を受けたが、帝通は官庁の発表記事に強く、新聞各社は帝通の記事を欲した。同社は日清戦争及び日露戦争を通じてその業務を拡大し、抜きん出た存在に成長した。[source] 528 pp |
news agency; Japan | 浅野杉松 [Asano Sugimatsu, comp.]; 編
帝国通信; opens direct to ToC, NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/805303) |
| 1899 | 日本電信符号 [Nippon telegraph code] 日本電信符號同盟會 [Nihon telegraph alliance ?] 352 + 8 pp; preface [faces イロハ ToC]. This book called “The commercial telegraphic code” contains words and sentences such as are daily used in our mercantile houses, in regard to producto and commodities, ships, name, chief towns and ports both foreign and home, stocks, banks, insurance, railways, mining, spinning, and other miscelanious companies, moneys, quantities, dates, time, percentage etc... ¶ In compiling the present work the author is greatly indebted to Mr. M. Yoshida, principal of the telegraphical department of the bureau of communication, for his kindness in minutely inspecting and approving this work. The Author. [link] |
commercial; Japan | 田中芳四郎 [Tanaka Yoshiro], comp.; opens direct to ToC, NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/805533) |
| 1899 | McNeill’s Code | mining | |
| 1899 | Terminal Index for McNeill’s Code | mining; like a rhyming dictionary | |
| 1899 | Private Telegraphic Code of Lunham & Moore | freight, insurance, brokerage, commodities | Baltimore; compiled by John Hinrichs |
| 1899 | Preliminary War Department Telegraphic Code “Supplemental to and to be inserted as an appendix to Western Union Telegraphic Code” |
military | 38pp; prepared by General A. W. Greeley; loads directly to LoC (pages, and pdf) |
| 1900 | Low’s Pocket Cable Code (Alphabetical), fifth (revised) edition | social; travel | “Comprising over 10,000 useful commercial and domestic phrases and sentences” |
| 1900 | Heath telegraphic cipher | flouring mills & merchants | G.M. Heath, La Cross, Wisconsin |
| 1900 | The Twentieth Century Telegraphic Cipher Code | cotton seed products | L. J. Guynes, New Orleans |
| 1900 | Telegraphic Code pp 529-70 General Machinery Catalogue No. 4 |
machinery catalogue codes | Niles Tool Works Co., Hamilton, Ohio |
| 1900 | Private Mining and Metallurgical Telegraphic Cipher Code of the Canadian Pacific Railway no date of publication, ca 1905 |
catalogue codes | “under the supervision of W. H. Aldridge” |
| 1901 | 日本電信符號 増訂2版 [Nippon telegraph code; 2nd edition] 日本電信符號同盟會 [Nihon telegraph alliance ?] 10 + 346 pp; |
commercial; Japan | 田中芳四郎 [Tanaka Yoshiro], comp.; opens direct to ToC, NDL copy (info:ndljp/pid/1083994) |
| 1901 | ABC Telegraphic Code (fifth edition) | general | W. Clauson-Thue, comp. |
| 1901 | Western Union Telegraphic Code (Universal Edition) | general | |
| 1901 | Telegraph Code | motor touring | three pp in Official Automobile Blue Book, Eastern Edition |
| 1901 | Telegraph Code F |
railroad, freight | Grand Trunk Railway System |
| 1902 | Codigo brazileiro universal | commercial | W.L. Wright; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 1902 | The Westinghouse Code | electrical | |
| 1902 | The International Cable Code (Third Edition) | provisions, grain | James Gopsill’s Sons, Philadelphia |
| 1903 | Appleby’s Copyright Code pp i-iv, Appleby’s Handbook of Machinery |
machinery | Section V. Steam and Electric Plant London and New York, |
| 1903 | Telegraphic Code, Government Bonds | bonds | First National City Bank of New York |
| 1903 | The revised economy telegraphic and cable cipher code | fruit and produce | Edmund Peycke (see also codes of 1908, 1918) |
| 1903 | Word Code for Foreign State Telegrams, Compiled for the Government of India | government; colonial administration | London. J. H. Lane, comp. |
| 1904 | Clough’s mining code (revised) | mining, investment | C.F. Clough; Shaw & Borden, Spokane |
| 1904 | cypher code for telegrams and post cards pp 93-98, George F. Chambers, The Tourist’s Pocket-Book, seventh edn. |
social | containing useful words and simple phrases. |
| 1904 | Special Cable Code for the Use of Delegates | curling | short code, for tour of Scottish team to North America, 1902-03 |
| 1905 | Hartfield’s “Wall Street” Code “contains about 467,000 cypher words all conforming...” |
financial | John W. Hartfield, comp.; opens directly to U Illinois copy/scan, via google books |
| 1905 | Omnibus: télégraphique français de poche à l’usage | general, social | Paris |
| 1905 | Lieber’s Bankers and Stockbrokers’ Code and Merchants’ and Shippers’ Blank Tables | banking, commercial | B. Franklin Lieber and Charles J. Dawson |
| 1905 | Telegraph Cipher Code two pages in Illustrated Catalogue, Deming Company |
pumps & hydraulic machinery catalogue | also codewords throughout catalogue |
| 1906 | Telegraphic Cipher Code, Gerrish System | astronomy, observational | Harvard College Observatory |
| 1906 | Standard Cipher Code of The American Railway Association | transportation | |
| 1906 | Travellers’ Telegraphic Code pp 492-99 in The Complete Pocket-Guide to Europe |
travel, social | Edmund C. and Thomas L. Stedman |
| 1907 | Mining Supplement to Bentley’s Complete Phrase Code | mining | E. L. Bentley |
| 1907 | Standard Lumber Reference Book and Code | lumber | Atlanta: Franklin-Turner Co., and Benj. F. Ulmer |
| 1907 | Un Code Télégraphique Du Portrait Parlé | signaletics police | R. A. Reiss |
| 1907 | Postal Code (Telegraph-Cable) | general | Frank Shay and Richard V Day, San Francisco |
| 1908 | McNeill’s Code (1908 Edition.) | mining | 105,192 entries, much expanded from previous edition |
| 1908 | The Billionaire Phrase Code | flexible phrases | tables generate phrases, with 10L ciphers; 56 pages |
| 1908 | The Modern Economy Telegraphic and Cable Cipher Code | green and dried fruit and produce | Edmund Peycke |
| 1908 | Telegraphic Code pp 142-44, Serums and Serum-Therapy |
drugs catalogue | Wellcome’s Excerpta Therapeutica |
| 1909 | Brentano’s Telegraph and Cable Code | general | |
| 1909 | Bentley’s complete phrase code | general | E. L. Bentley; reprint of 1906 edition |
| 1910 | Private Jute Code | commodities | A. C. Sen, comp.; Chandpur, Tipperah; printed in Calcutta |
| 1910 | Jiao tong bi xi 交通必携 | Chinese character code | communications handbook |
| 1911 | Telegraphic code, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society | religious | 28 pages, administrative mainly |
| 1911 | Private Telegraphic Code | steel | United States Steel Corporation |
| 1911 | Everybody’s Pocket Code | social, travel | London; W. M. Saunders |
| 1911 | General information cable code / Llave telegrafica para informes generales | business correspondence | pp 9-12 in Frank Thomas, The shipping clerks’, correspondents’ and travellers’ handbook (Glasgow) |
| 1912 | Scientific Dial Primer | utopian; visionary; impractical | Andrew Hallner, comp. |
| 1912 | The Emigre (P.C.) Cable Code | legal | S.V. Blake and F.A.C. Redden, comps. |
| 1912 | Hartfield’s New Wall street(Newallst) Code |
finance | John Hartfield |
| 1913 | USDA Weather Bureau, Weather Code | meterological; observational | LoC copy; 101pp, tables |
| 1913 | Bauers Code; der neue deutsche telegramm-schlüssel | commercial | Ludovic N. Bauer; Leipzig |
| 1913 | China Inland Mission Private Telegraph Code | religious administration | Shanghai |
| 1913 | The Adams Cable Codex (Tenth Edition) | social | |
| 1913 | Telegraph and Cable Code, W. S. Tyler and Company | industrial | screens, for use in Chilean mines, etc. |
| 1913 | The Imperial Combination Code (Rubber Edition) | general, and rubber | London; Edward Barron Broomhall |
| 1914 | The Private Code and Post-Card Cypher | social, humor | Constance and Burges Johnson |
| 1915 | A telegraphic code for the use of the United States Public Health Service | public health | NIH/NLM copy; links directly to archive.org |
| 1916 | Private and confidential cipher code of J. J. Williamson, Woodbury, GA. | cotton | LoC copy; links directly to archive.org |
| 1917 | Keegan’s international code. Second Edition; A practical three-letter code | lumber, some other products | Margaret Winifred Keegan, comp.; Seattle |
| 1917 | The Automobile Telegraphic Code | automotive; motoring; touring | Robert E. Pye, comp.; opens directly to LoC copy/scan |
| 1918 | Finger Prints: The Code | dactylography; police | chapter 6 of Harris Hawthorne Wilder and Bert Wentworth, Personal Identification |
| 1918 | Peycke’s New Ekonomik Telegraphic Cipher Code for the Fruit and Produce Trade | produce | Edmund Peycke |
| 1918 | The “Colorado” Code | military | General Headquarters, AEF |
| 1919 | General Cipher Code cable addresses all Standard Oil |
petroleum | Charles E. Stubbe, comp.; 718pp; LoC copy/scan; also at archive.org |
| 1919 | Private telegraphic code of the Irving national bank, New York 3 p.l., 1783p; 5L for international; longer code words for domestic |
banking | LoC copy; links directly to archive.org |
| 1920 | American bankers and brokers telegraphic code (Third edition) | banking | LoC copy (permalink), opens to archive.org |
| 1920 | ABC Telegraphic Code (sixth edition) | general | William Clauson-Thue, edited by William Droege |
| 1920 | The Nautical Telegraph Code and Postal Guide (fourth edition) | social | Captain D. H. Bernard (?) |
| 1921 | Fairchild’s Illustrated Women’s Wear Code | rag trade; ekphrastic telegraphy | LoC copy/scan, at archive.org; Louis Harmuth, comp. |
| 1921 | Weather Message Code | meteorological; aviation | links to Digital Library of India (Indian Institute of Astrophysics) scan, at archive.org |
| 1921 | The motor trade telegram code | automotive | William Moore Saunders |
| 1921 | Radiographic weather code for vessel weather observers | meteorology | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau |
| 1921 | Bensinger’s Special Edition of Complete Phrase Code | general | E. L. Bentley; reset edition of his 1906 Phrase Code; includes “One Million Cyphers” (condenser) |
| 1921 | The Missions Code | missionary | Foreign Missions Conference of North America, New York |
| 1921 | The motor trade telegram code | automotive | Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders; W. M. Saunders, comp. |
| 1923 | Private Telegraph Code of Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago company profile at Encyclopedia of Chicago : link |
packers (canned meat, vegetables and fruit) | 751pp; LoC copy/scan; also at archive.org |
| 1923 | Domestic telegraph code of the Hunter manufacturing & commission co. | commission merchants; fabrics | LoC copy/scan; also archive.org; typewritten, mimeo? |
| 1923 | California Packing Corporation Code. “Calpak Code” | packing; canning | LoC copy/scan (archive.org); 5L; 837pp |
| 1923 | Cinema code; a practical telegraph-cable code specially compiled for the motion picture and allied industries and for the personal use of individuals connected therewith | cinema; Richard Poillon | opens directly to LoC (permalink); same at archive.org |
| 1923 | Telegraphic Code. E. C. Atkins & Company, Cat. No. 19 | saws, tools, knives; catalogue code | opens directly to google scan, provided by Don Wilwol |
| 1924 | USDA Weather Bureau, Weather Code | meterological; observational | LoC copy |
| 1924 | Indian Word Code, Sixth Edition |
government | two scans: Bengal Legislative copy (archive.org) and U Rajasthan copy (DLI) |
| 1924 | Private Code. National Lead Company iv, 334 p. fold. tab. 17 cm. |
lead; 5L, flexible tables | opens directly to archive.org; also directly at LoC (permalink) |
| 1925 | California Packing Corporation Code (Calpack Code) “designed to succeed and replace the codes published by the J. K. Armsby Company and the California Fruit Canners Association” |
fruit and vegetable packing | 5L pronounceable; Del Monte Corporation; links direct to google books scan |
| 1926 | Code télégraphique international de police | police | Johan Schober (1874-1932); links direct to Criminocorpus |
| 1927 | “Phoenix” Silk Code : in 12 figures indicators (first two figures explain reading subsequent 10 figures; 12th figure always a check); condenses 12 figures to 10-L; examples (and suggestions) pp 33-38 |
silk; Japan | 暗号電報作成事務所; links direct to NDL copy |
| 1930 | General Cipher Code | express transport | Railway Express Agency, New York |
| 1930 | International radio weather code for use on United States selected ships | meteorology | U.S. Dept of Agriculture, Weather Bureau |
| 1930 | International Police Telegraphic Code | police | England; Metropolitan Police District |
| 1938 | M. E. C.; most economical code, 3-letter code Netherlands Indies |
trade, shipping | Th. Reumerman, comp; 298pp; LoC copy/scan; also at archive.org |
| 1942 | Telegraph Code For use between bona fide spot cotton markets and offices of the Agricultural Marketing Association |
cotton | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| 1950 | Confidential Telegraphic Code. 5-L code; 15 pages. “records chronicle the American Social Health (originally ‘Hygiene’) Association’s efforts to control and prevent venereal disease, prostitution, and drug addiction” |
public health brothels, prostitution, soldiers | links directly to U Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives. |
| 1950 | Korean telegraphic code book with characters arranged by sounds in English Alphabetic Order according to the McCune-Reischauer System of Transliteration |
Korean (character code) | or 1952 |
| 1957 | A.N.A.R.E. Code | social — Antarctic service | Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions |
A belated overhaul and expansion of my page(s) devoted to signal codes is currently under way.
(3 March 2015)
5 December 2024