telegraph
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Eight million people showed up to see the fair, which featured Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone and Thomas Edison’s telegraph, a fitting tribute to American innovation.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2026
Along the way, “Empire of Ink” almost wistfully acknowledges the steady rise of labor unions and new technologies: steam-powered presses, the telegraph and, ultimately, the linotype.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
We have always absorbed disruptions, from the telegraph to the internet, and turned each into a wider circle of connection.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
A woman has been seriously injured after being trapped underneath a fallen telegraph pole in a train station car park.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026
In Europe, another innovator, Charles Babbage, born the son of a banker in 1791, was developing an early calculating machine at the time that Morse was refining and evangelizing the telegraph.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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