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2. Timeline of North American telegraphy - Wikipedia

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   It is sent to Jeptha Wade, the president of the Pacific Telegraph Company. On the same day, Frank Fuller, acting governor of Utah, sent a message to President Lincoln. [110] 24 October 1861: The first transcontinental telegraph across the United States is completed at Salt Lake City, Utah, causing the Pony Express to close two days later.

3. Telegraphy in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 1866 the first transatlantic telegraph cable was completed, connecting America and Europe. [13] The completion of the First transcontinental telegraph in 1861 allowed messages to be sent from coast to coast in a matter of hours rather than weeks. In the late 1860s and 1870s, the telegraph expanded rapidly westward, connecting cities like ...

4. Baltimore–Washington telegraph line - Wikipedia

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   The first telegram. Professor Samuel Morse sending the dispatch as dictated by Miss Annie Ellsworth. The Baltimore–Washington telegraph line was the first long-distance telegraph system set up to run overland in the United States. [1] [2] [3]

5. On this day in history, October 24, 1861, transcontinental ...

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   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.

6. Transatlantic telegraph cable - Wikipedia

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   The first was successfully read at Valentia on 12 August and in Newfoundland on 13 August. Further test and configuration messages followed until 16 August, when the first official message was sent via the cable: Directors of Atlantic Telegraph Company, Great Britain, to Directors in America:—Europe and America are united by telegraph.

7. Wildman Whitehouse - Wikipedia

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   Whitehouse in 1856. Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse (1 October 1816 – 26 January 1890) was an English surgeon by profession and an electrical experimenter by avocation. . He was recruited by entrepreneur Cyrus West Field as Chief Electrician to work on the pioneering endeavour to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company between western Ireland to ...

8. Samuel Morse - Wikipedia

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   Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

9. Today in History: First around-the-world telegram sent - AOL

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   According to HIstory.com the content of the message was simply "This message sent around the world" and it was sent from the newspaper's office in NY at 7 p.m. on August 20. The telegram started ...