The British Admiralty dismisses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ronalds" id="mwqA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Francis Ronalds">Francis Ronalds</a>'s new invention of the first working <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_telegraph" id="mwqQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Electrical telegraph">electric telegraph</a> as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.