Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. The transcontinental telegraph, the first instant communications ...
About 62 people had claimed invention of the first electric telegraph by 1837, when Britain started the first operating telegraph using five needles to point to alphabet letters. New York professor ...
The telegraph started it all. It was the first electronic communications system and the first network. And we got it before the telephone, electrical power wiring, and radio. What reminded me of that ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Many people know the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Utah in 1869. But years earlier, in 1861 the first Transcontinental Telegraph lines were linked in Salt Lake City. A ...
On Oct. 24, 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph system was completed by Western Union, making it possible to transmit messages rapidly (by mid-19th century standards) from coast to coast. This ...
Last week the 75th anniversary of the opening of the first transcontinental telegraph line in the U. S. was dutifully observed by Western Union Telegraph Co. While replicas of the old Morse ...
On Oct. 24, 1861 California’s isolation from the rest of the United States ended. From that day forward information would only take minutes to flow back and forth between east and west. Telegraph ...
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