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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]
Proposals for the subsidy of a telegraph line to California were made in Congress throughout the 1850s, and in 1860 the U.S. Post Office was authorized to spend $40,000 per year to build and maintain an overland line. The year before, the California State Legislature had authorized a similar subsidy of $6,000 per year.
The California State Telegraph Company was a business originally organized to provide telegraph service between San Francisco and Marysville, California.By the spring of 1861, the company had expanded its service area south to Los Angeles, north to Yreka, and east to Fort Churchill by absorbing the other telegraph companies in California (partly through enforcement of its right to the Morse ...
The Overland Telegraph Company was absorbed into the California State Telegraph Company in November 1861, [8] (as the officers of the two companies were the same, it was said the companies were "substantially the same concern"). [9] In 1866, the Western Union Telegraph Company acquired a controlling interest in California State Telegraph ...
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.
In September 1853, the first telegraph in California, which extended eight miles to Point Lobos, San Francisco, was set up on the hill and replaced the semaphore, therefore giving the hill the name of "Telegraph Hill." [4] [10] This telegraph was known as the Marine Telegraph Station, and was destroyed by a storm in 1870.
Calls are made to Cowes, Southampton and London, the first long-distance calls in the UK. [12] The queen asks to buy the equipment that was used, but Bell offers to make a model specifically for her. [13] 28 January 1878: The first commercial North American telephone exchange is opened in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Pacific Telegraph Company was one of the organizations responsible for constructing the telegraph line which resulted in the first transcontinental telegraph network in the United States. The company built the section of line between Julesburg , Colorado Territory (where it connected with existing telegraph networks to the eastern United ...