Morse's 1837 telegraph receiver prototype, built with a canvas-stretcher Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives A crowd of hushed spectators packed into the small red factory house at ...

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 ...

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 ...

After linking the world for 167 years, the commercial electric telegraph is no more. The speed with which electromagnetic telegraph systems took over both short- and long-distance communication in the ...