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 … ...

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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.

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 ...

ca 1860 ID Number EM.320525 catalog number 320525 accession number 241402 Object Name relay telegraph relay Chester relay Physical Description wood (overall material) brass (overall material) ivory ...

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 ...