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Western Union Telegraph Building, lithograph. The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado.. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, [3] the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with several other telegraph ...
Western Union advocated several more recent patent claims of Daniel Drawbaugh, Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, and Philip Reis in a bid to invalidate Alexander Graham Bell's master and subsidiary telephone patents dating from March 1876. A decision for Western Union would have immediately destroyed the Bell Telephone Company, and might have ...
New York State Normal School. Occupation. Business executive (1847–1878) Known for. President, Western Union Telegraph Company, 1867–1878. William Orton (June 14, 1826 – April 22, 1878) was an American businessman who served as president of the Western Union Telegraph Company .
Hochfelder, David. "Constructing an Industrial Divide: Western Union, AT&T, and the Federal Government, 1876–1971," Business History Review (2002) 76#4 (2002), pp. 705–732 online; Israel, Paul. From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830–1920 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1992).
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
"Constructing an Industrial Divide: Western Union, AT&T, and the Federal Government, 1876-1971" Business History Review 76 (Winter 2002) pp: 705-732. Honsowetz, Aaron Michael. "1866 Post Roads Act: Federal Preemption and Deregulation of the United States Telegraph Industry" (PhD dissertation, George Mason University; ProQuest Dissertations ...
Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois.
v. t. e. The Compromise of 1877, also known as the Wormley Agreement, the Bargain of 1877, or the Corrupt Bargain, was an unwritten political deal in the United States to settle the intense dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election, ending the filibuster of the certified results and the threat of political violence in exchange ...