ON December 2 a telegram was received from Reuter's agent at Shanghai, announcing that the telegraph line between that town and Tientsin was finished. In a few weeks we may expect to hear of the ...

The first transcontinental telegraph line went into operation 149 years ago on October 24, 1861, when the gap between the country's eastern and western networks was closed. The year before, Congress ...

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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The line projected by Mr. COLLINS, from the Pacific Telegraph to Amoor river, with its anticipated extension by the Russian Government to Irkoutsk, would be the one link now wanted to supply direct ...

On this date in history: In 1844, the first U.S telegraph line was formally opened -- between Baltimore and Washington. The first message sent was "What hath God wrought?" In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge ...

Boise still had no connection to a telegraph line in November 1874, when the Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman reported: “The Northern Telegraph Company have extended their line from Silver City to Fairview, ...

Western Union completed the transcontinental telegraph, bridging communications between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the very first time — just as the Civil War tore apart north and south — on ...

Photo by Jess Mancini Brian Kesterson, a local Civil War history expert, holds the letter Clarkson Fogg wrote from Camp Lightburn in 1861 in which he talks about “a submarine telegraph line” installed ...

The following article appears in the Encyclopaedia Iranica. Indo-European Telegraph Department, a branch of the British Indian government based in London which managed a series of telegraph lines in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Telegraph relays amplified electrical ...