Telegraph - Electrical Signals, Morse Code, Communication: Although railroad traffic control was one of the earliest applications of the telegraph, it immediately became a vital tool for the transmission of news around the country. In 1848 the Associated Press was formed in the United States to pool telegraph expenses, and in 1849 Paul Julius Reuters in Paris initiated telegraphic press service (using pigeons to cover sections where lines were incomplete). By 1851 more than 50 telegraph companies were in operation in the United States. One of the most significant was the New York and Mississippi Printing Telegraph Company formed by Hiram Sibley, which was soon consolidated with
The telephone was first introduced at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 and was an instant success. Although first rented only to "persons of good breeding" and seen as an expensive luxury for doctors and businessmen, the telephone soon transformed American life. Trees gave way to telephone poles as operators known as "hello girls" began to connect a sprawling continent.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – This year marks the 150th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s most famous invention: the telephone. While scientific history is mired in controversy over who .
‘Credit where credit’s due’ is not a phrase that rang true for Granville T Woods. The man who would go on to be known as the ‘Black Edison’ didn’t have the easiest start in life for an engineer.
Has Friend Reader noticed a provincial self-involvement among newspaper columnists, a tendency to write about our own biz as though we imagined Reader was gaga to know all its jargony ins and outs? I have.