Walter P. Phillips

Walter P. Phillips

Walter P. Phillips, born in Grafton, Massachusetts in 1846, was a telegraph operator who invented the Phillips Code. He later went on to become the very respected head of the United Press. The most famous remnant of the Phillips Code is POTUS.

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* [http://www.radions.net/philcode.htm The text of The Phillips Code]


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