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 ...

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, ...

IN the spring of 1860 an article was published in this magazine with the above title, giving an account of the extension of the telegraph up to that time. Its progress since has been very great in ...

(U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. XII, p. 489 ff.) An Act to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. . . . Be it enacted, That [names of ...

On this date in history: In 1844, the first U.S telegraph line was formally opened -- between Baltimore and Washington. The first message sent was "What hath God wrought?" In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Telegraph repeaters amplified ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Telegraph relays amplified electrical ...

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