LOS ANGELES (AP) - Long before there was an Internet or an iPad, before people were social networking and instant messaging, Americans had already gotten wired. Monday marks the 150th anniversary of ...

Western Union completed the transcontinental telegraph, bridging communications between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the very first time — just as the Civil War tore apart north and south — on ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Tom Wheeler provided a brief history of the telegraph. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg hosted this ...

The first transcontinental telegraph line went into operation 149 years ago on October 24, 1861, when the gap between the country's eastern and western networks was closed. The year before, Congress ...

The telegraph key used to send the famous message “What Hath God Wroght” over the prototype telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C. in 1844 Smithsonian American Art Museum Today, we ...

The Telegraph has seen an extraordinary increase in its digital subscriber base, jumping from just 77 subscribers in 2019 to 2,084 in 2025 — a remarkable 2,706% growth. This surge comes as a result of ...

Daily Mail owner DMGT just struck an over $650 million deal to buy its rival U.K.-based newspaper, The Daily Telegraph ...