Western Union completed the transcontinental telegraph, bridging communications between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the very first time — just as the Civil War tore apart north and south — on ...

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Boise still had no connection to a telegraph line in November 1874, when the Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman reported: “The Northern Telegraph Company have extended their line from Silver City to Fairview, ...

From the time when bespectacled farmers squinted by lantern’s flame at tiny words on thick, handmade paper to the contemporary businessperson’s harried glance at a bright, graphics-laden LCD screen, ...

The only telegraph machine in Orange County sits across from the only other telegraph machine in Orange County, polished relics to the first great breakthrough in mass communications, now all but ...

This collection contains papers concerning the invention and development of the telegraph by Samuel F. B. Morse, Alfred Vail, and others, especially Vail's work with telegraph instruments and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Records relating to the organization of the company, corporate and financial records. Corporate records include two volumes of the company's acts, ...