It was in the middle of a war with Russia, which was not going well, that The Daily Telegraph was launched in 1855. The title of the new paper came from the world-changing technology of the electric ...

Higher Feniscowles Hall in Links Lane has an impressive six bedrooms. It dates back to 1860 and has since been extended and remodelled by the current owner, while still maintaining its original ...

Though the Pony Express only last from 1860-1861 before being superseded by telegraph lines, the Cold Springs Station re-built as a vital link in transcontinental communication.

Their first step was to lease all the telegraph lines from Halifax, -- and then dissolve the compact which had existed between their owners and the Press for the transmission of foreign news.

From the Brazilian city, the cable connected to the telegraph network, which saw its first developments in Brazil in 1852, along with the railroads. There was also already a submarine cable along the ...

The Telegraph Company has nothing whatever to do with the associations of the Press; its business is that of a common carrier, and its duty is simply to send whatever messages may be entrusted to ...

The focus of the book is the construction of British India in terms of built space in the subcontinent spearheaded largely by the English East India Company whose rule formally ended after the mutiny ...

Jailed sex offender had been in contact with victim for a month before officers intervened Jails across the state have been forced to upgrade their prisoner telephone systems ­security after an ...

On this day Ram Kamal Bhattacharya, a brilliant scholar of Sanskrit College, who had been appointed headmaster of Calcutta Normal School, died by suicide. He was 26. Ram Kamal, like his younger ...

More than 150 years before Donald Trump said his Mar-a-Lago safe was raided by the FBI, Interior Secretary Jacob Thompson found that his department's safe had been robbed.

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 ...