The author of this article was PhD candidate at Case Western Reserve University. The article was written for a website created in 1997 by the staff of the Joseph Henry Papers Project to mark the ...
The only telegraph machine in Orange County sits across from the only other telegraph machine in Orange County, polished relics to the first great breakthrough in mass communications, now all but ...
Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse spent summers at his Locust Grove Estate in New York. The 14,000-square-foot villa has 45 rooms ...
August 29, 1860 - The first telegraph connection to Nebraska territory was completed Aug. 28, 1860. The connection went from St. Joseph, Mo. to Brownville. The next day, the first outgoing telegram ...