Royal Earl House (9 September 1814 – 25 February 1895) was the inventor of the first printing telegraph, which is kept in the Smithsonian Institution.
Royal Earl House spent his childhood in Vermont experimenting, designing, and building, a habit which would earn him distinction as an adult.
Around 1840, he went to Buffalo, New York to live with relatives and attend law school in that town.
House's equipment could transmit around 40 instantly readable words per minute, but was difficult to manufacture in bulk.
Later the House Co. and the Morse Co. joined and formed the Great Western Telegraph Company.