It was in the middle of a war with Russia, which was not going well, that The Daily Telegraph was launched in 1855. The title of the new paper came from the world-changing technology of the electric ...

Joseph Henry, America's foremost electrical physicist of the early 19th century and first Secretary of the Smithsonian, was central to the development of science and technology surrounding the ...

On a brisk afternoon in Washington, D.C., on December 13, 1844, an unusual sight drew curious onlookers to the U.S. Capitol. A tangle of wires, wooden poles, and odd-looking electrical boxes had been ...

On 26 November 1844, two chess teams faced off while separated by 60 kilometers, as the Washington Chess Club played a team in Baltimore using the newly built electrical telegraph. Three consulting ...

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When Samuel Morse died in 1872, Chicago’s mayor offered an effusive elegy to the telegraph’s pioneer, as well he might. Without Morse’s contributions to the development of telegraphy, Joseph Medill ...

Cover title: Diagrams of the electric telegraph. Author statement from lower left corner, imprint from lower right. Hand colored lithograph. 1 sheet : col. ill. ; 57 x 88 cm. folded to 28 x 22 cm. in ...