nineteenth-century teletransportation

“There was no reason why matter could not be telegraphed, or to be more etymologically accurate, ‘telepomped’. It was only necessary to effect at one end of the line the disintegration of the molecules into atoms and to convey the vibrations of the chemical dissolution by electricity to the other pole, where a corresponding reconstruction could be effected.” [1]

[1] Mitchell, E. P.  (1877) Article in The New York Sun, 25 March