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The lines of electric telegraph are increasing so rapidly, that the length in actual use cannot be estimated at any moment with accuracy.

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The Alton - St. Louis Packet Company built the handsome steamer City of Alton in 1860. The packet company dominated river commerce out of Alton as long as the railroads depended on steamers to ...

The advent of the telegraph put a quick end to the Pony Express. Despite its lofty place in American western folklore, the operation lasted barely 18 months, from April 1860 to October 1861.

London: The Great Transformation 1860-1920 by Philip Davies (Atlantic, £50) is published on Thursday. To order your copy for £42, call 0844 871 1514 or visit Telegraph Books ...

A user purchasing Bitcoin on Indian exchange Unocoin has reported hackers immediately stole the majority of his funds.

In this gallery, we take a look at a selection of exhibits from the National Portrait Gallery's celebration of the Victorian textile designer, artist, writer and visionary William Morris.

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 ...

The project to find the farmhouses was launched by the Sangamon County Historic Preservation Commission and the Sangamon County Farm Bureau, the (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports.

During the Civil War, she served as a spy, scout, nurse and cook in the US Army. In a mission with Col. James Montgomery, she helped the army rescue more ...