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A mailgram is a type of telegraphic message which is delivered to the recipient by the post office.Mailgrams are received at a mailgram center by telephone, teletypewriter service or computer.
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 ...
The Western Union Chiefs of Staff Committee (WUCOS), based in London, United Kingdom, [8] consisted of the five national chiefs of staff. [ 9 ] WUCOS directed the operative organisation and advised the Defence Committee on all matters affecting the defence of Western Europe, taking account of commitments in other parts of the world.
Automatic Telegraph Switching System Plan 55-A was one in a series of store and forward message switching systems developed by Western Union and used from 1948 to 1976 for processing telegrams. [1] It is an automated successor to Plan 51, which commenced service in 1951 in a nationwide network of the U.S. Air Force, but required semi-automatic ...
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The design of the system, originally named "ComLogNet", began in 1958 by a team of Western Union, RCA and IBM.The customer was the U.S. Air Force and the system's purpose was to improve the speed and reliability of logistics traffic (spare parts for missiles) between five logistics centers and roughly 350 bases and contractor locations.
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