The mishap makes the telegraph line unavailable for the present. The banners of a portion of the procession, which passed up Centre-street, also caused an entanglement of the wires in that ...

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 ...

while telegraph lines conveyed news and information of the day. Through his job on the railroad, Edison was exposed to both. He acquired an early interest in telegraphy and took lessons informally at ...

This claim regarding the Harris heritage received renewed interest following the VP's announcement of her candidacy for U.S.

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More than 1,800 people died in Northern Ireland in the last decade while waiting for a home, it can be revealed. Exclusive figures also show that over 14,000 of the 48,000 applicants currently on ...

The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers are back up for sale after an Abu Dhabi-backed bid to take them over collapsed. The ownership of the papers was set to be transferred to the Gulf-backed ...

Humans have been using the rhesus macaque for scientific research since the late 1800s when the theory of evolution gained more acceptance, according to a 2022 research paper by the journal eLife.

Half a million pensioners are on track to lose £1,800 under the Tories as a stealth ... Two pensioners in every five were below the poverty line in 1989 but this rate had fallen to fewer than ...

A combination of enviable snow cover, a variety of impressive terrain and a season that lasts most of the year makes Tignes ...

Seeking votes along religious lines goes against the Constitutional values ... Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Telegraph Online staff and has been published from a ...

"The push to create a transcontinental telegraph line had begun only a little more than year before when Congress authorized a subsidy of $40,000 a year to any company building a telegraph line ...