By 1860, the telegraph was a lot like an early cell-phone system. Only instead of losing the connection when you stepped behind a big building, you lost it if you traveled west of Omaha, Nebraska.

LOS ANGELES — Long before there was an Internet or an iPad, before people were social networking and instant messaging, Americans had already gotten wired. Monday marks the 150th anniversary … ...

By 1860, the telegraph was a lot like an early cell-phone system. Only instead of losing the connection when you stepped behind a big building, you lost it if you traveled west of Omaha, Neb.

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IN the spring of 1860 an article was published in this magazine with the above title, giving an account of the extension of the telegraph up to that time. Its progress since has been very great in ...

With the passage of the Telegraph Act in 1860, the lawmakers authorized the U.S. Post Office to spend $40,000 a year to build and maintain an overland line. In 1859, ...

LOS ANGELES — Long before there was an Internet or an iPad, before people were social networking and instant messaging, Americans had already gotten wired. Today marks the 150th anniversary of ...

He’s responsible for the telegraph and Morse code, and was also a skilled painter, writes David Lindsay for PBS. ... By 1860, though, the time of the daguerreotype was over.

By 1860, the telegraph was a lot like an early cell-phone system. Only instead of losing the connection when you stepped behind a big building, you lost it if you traveled west of Omaha, Neb.

It is but fifteen years since the first line of electric telegraph was constructed in this country and at the present time there are not less than 50,000 miles in successful operation on this ...