Statistics for occurrence #1 of “England” in chapter 5 of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:

...ortant discovery that the earth might be used as a part of the circuit, thus enabling him to dispense with one half the length of wire which was thought requisite. The attention of Wheatstone, in England , appears to have been drawn to the subject of telegraphy in 1834. Morse's first idea was to employ chemical agencies for recording the signals, but he subsequently abandoned this for an apparatu...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
England (United Kingdom) 19,013 766 1 0 0 user votes
England (Arkansas, United States) 192 0 0 0 0 user votes
England (Oklahoma, United States) 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
England (New Mexico, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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