The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.

Western Union Telegraph Company Records / Series 1: Historical and Background Information Date 1851-1994 Archival Repository Archives Center, National Museum of American History Identifier ...

In 1858, the first transatlantic telegraph cable connected Europe and North America — and history was never the same. For the first time, empires could speak in near real-time across oceans.

Chronicling The Telegraph’s Illinois Press Association accolades through the years ...

With the telegraph's arrival in Bloomington in 1854, Charles Merriman said, “We may reasonably expect soon to be in electrical connection with the ‘rest of mankind.’” ...

The first telegraph line ever connecting Morocco to Europe was installed by the British. Laid at sea between Gibraltar and Tangier in the 1880s, the cable was the result of years of lobbying and ...

Over the course of three hours on the night of April 14-15, 1912, the messages transmitted by the telegraph operator aboard the R.M.S. Titanic went from the frivolous (on behalf of a passenger to ...