While we all brag about how fast social media travels, it wasn’t long ago when the fastest communication were wires strewn across the county. There were attempts as early as 1826 to create the ...

IN the spring of 1860 an article was published in this magazine with the above title, giving an account of the extension of the telegraph up to that time. Its progress since has been very great in ...

Starting Wednesday, about 95 percent of content the British newspaper The Telegraph publishes online will flow through a new content management system — one that it developed in-house through a ...

In 1900, the Signal Corps began building the Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System to provide basic communications to the area. The completion of the Alaskan Cable System in 1904 was ...

In 1852, Boston took a major technological step forward, becoming the first city to use the telegraph as part of a public fire alarm warning system. 162 years later, Boston still relies on the ...

Marine salvors on Wednesday outlined plans to recover the Marconi wireless telegraph from inside the RMS Titanic after being cleared by a U.S. judge in May to retrieve a piece of history from the ...

Last week you learned about Troy telegrapher Silas Watson Ford, who discovered the first Devonian era fossils in Troy’s Beman Park. A second Trojan, George M. Phelps didn’t discover any fossils but he ...