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Early proposals for an optical telegraph system were made to the Royal Society by Robert Hooke in 1684 [12] and were first implemented on an experimental level by Sir Richard Lovell Edgeworth in 1767. [13] The first successful optical telegraph network was invented by Claude Chappe and operated in France from 1793. [14]
The timeline of North American telegraphy is a chronology of notable events in the history of the electric telegraphy in the United States and Canada, including the rapid spread of telegraphic communications starting from 1844 and completion of the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861.
Vail was a first cousin to Alfred Vail, who was instrumental in developing the first telegraph. In August 1869, Vail married Emma Righter (November 6, 1844 – February 3, 1905), of Newark, New Jersey. They had one son, Davis Righter Vail (July 18, 1870 – December 20, 1906), [4] who died after a 10-day bout with typhoid fever in 1906. [6]
The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.
Du Boff, Richard B. "The Telegraph in Nineteenth-Century America: Technology and Monopoly" Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26#4 (1984), pp. 571–586. Gabler, Edwin. The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860-1900 (1988) Gallagher, Edward A. Getting the message across: the story of Western Union ((Newcomen Society, 1971 ...
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In 1838, Steinheil installed a telegraph along the Nuremberg–Fürth railway line, built in 1835 as the first German railroad, which was the first earth-return telegraph put into service. By 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone had co-developed a telegraph system which used a number of needles on a board that could be moved to ...
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