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 ...

Last week you learned about Troy telegrapher Silas Watson Ford, who discovered the first Devonian era fossils in Troy’s Beman Park. A second Trojan, George M. Phelps didn’t discover any fossils but he ...

In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the hydraulic telegraph. This ancient invention utilized synchronized water clocks ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This early telegraph register was ...