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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.
The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860-1900 (1988) Gallagher, Edward A. Getting the message across: the story of Western Union ((Newcomen Society, 1971) Hindle, Brooke. Emulation and Invention (1981), compares telegraph and steamboat. Hochfelder, David. The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012 ...
Distant Writing—The History of the Telegraph Companies in Britain between 1838 and 1868; Western Union Telegraph Company Records, 1820–1995—Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Early telegraphy and fax engineering, still operable in a German computer museum (Archived 20 April 2012 at the Wayback ...
1843 – Samuel Morse builds the first long-distance electric telegraph line. 1899 – The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America was incorporated in New Jersey, and Spencer Trask & Co., an American investment service, underwrote the IPO. This was a subsidiary of the British Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company. [17] [18] [19]
The history of telecommunication began with the use of smoke signals and drums in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In the 1790s, the first fixed semaphore systems emerged in Europe. However, it was not until the 1830s that electrical telecommunication systems started to appear. This article details the history of telecommunication and the ...
The Electric Telegraph: A Social and Economic History. David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5883-9. OCLC 655205099. Mercer, David, The Telephone: The Life Story of a Technology, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 ISBN 031333207X; Schwoch, James (2018). Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier. University of Illinois Press.
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.
Contemporary map of the 1858 transatlantic cable route. Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. . Telegraphy is an obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic telecommunication