On a brisk afternoon in Washington, D.C., on December 13, 1844, an unusual sight drew curious onlookers to the U.S. Capitol.

Telecommunications began to take on special relevance in the 19th century with the invention of the telegraph, although ...

IT may be safely said that no one of the wonder-working agencies of the nineteenth century, of an importance in any degree equal to that of the Electric Telegraph, is so little understood in its ...

Boise still had no connection to a telegraph line in November 1874, when the Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman reported: “The Northern Telegraph Company have extended their line from Silver City to Fairview, ...

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Telegraph Road is one of the busiest highways in metropolitan Detroit. However, little has been written about its history because its origins were obscure. Telegraph Road was originally constructed as ...