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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
In 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph message was sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., over a line built by ...
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