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The first telegraph office November 14, 1845 report in New York Herald on telegraph lines coming into operation. 1 April 1845: First public telegraph office opens in Washington, D.C., under the control of the Postmaster-General. [4] The public now had to pay for messages, which were no longer free. [5]
Young Telegraph was a weekly section of The Daily Telegraph published as a 14-page supplement in the weekend edition of the newspaper. Young Telegraph featured a mixture of news, features, cartoon strips and product reviews aimed at 8–12-year-olds. It was edited by Damien Kelleher (1993–1997) and Kitty Melrose (1997–1999).
The United States' Telegraph was a newspaper published in Washington, D.C., in the early 19th century.It was first published in 1814 as the Washington City Gazette by Jonathan Elliot and two associates, but ceased publication the same year due to the burning of Washington during the War of 1812.
News agencies were formed, such as the Associated Press, for the purpose of reporting news by telegraph. [77]: 274–75 Messages and information would now travel far and wide, and the telegraph demanded a language "stripped of the local, the regional; and colloquial", to better facilitate a worldwide media language. [88]
The Electric Telegraph: An Historical Anthology (1977) Smethers, J. Steven. "Pounding Brass for the Associated Press: Delivering News by Telegraph in a Pre-Teletype Era." American Journalism 19.2 (2002): 13-30. Sussman, Gerald. "Nineteenth-century telegraphy: Wiring the emerging urban corporate economy." Media History 22.1 (2016): 40–66.
Albert Brown Chandler (August 20, 1840 – February 23, 1923) was an American corporate executive. He was notable for his association with Abraham Lincoln during Chandler's service as a War Department telegraph operator during the American Civil War, and his later work as president of the Postal Telegraph Company.
In 1847, he was subcontractor for J.J. Speed and constructed a telegraph line from Detroit to Jackson, Michigan, where Wade and his son operated the telegraph office.He also connected Detroit, Michigan, to Buffalo, New York, Cleveland to Cincinnati (Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, the Wade Line), and others.
Emma A. Hunter (1831–1904) was an American telegraph operator from West Chester, Pennsylvania. She was hired by the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Company in 1851 and worked as a telegrapher until 1868. She is known as the second female telegrapher in Pennsylvania, preceded only by Helen Plummer of Greenville in 1850. Although she was widely ...