Telephones revolutionized how people communicate with one another, and it was only a few years after their invention that West Virginia started to see them implemented.

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On May 24, 1844, the first U.S telegraph line was formally opened -- between Baltimore and Washington.

From The Hindu, May 22, 1925: The Department of Posts and Telegraphs reports that, in the neighbourhood of Gunnavaram, all telegraph lines and posts have been completely wrecked over a distance of ...

Sypult said Gifford’s frustration with the rates charged by the Illinois Central spurred his decision to start the Punkin Vine line.

In 1900, the Signal Corps began building the Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System to provide basic communications to the area. The completion of the Alaskan Cable System in 1904 was ...

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THE criterion of the good working of a line of telegraph is its freedom from interruption. Interruptions to the communication are technically called “faults,” and on our overground lines men ...

With the telegraph's arrival in Bloomington in 1854, Charles Merriman said, “We may reasonably expect soon to be in electrical connection with the ‘rest of mankind.’” ...