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January 22, 1848 map in New York Herald showing extent of existing and planned North American telegraph lines. At this time, the service area for the United States reached Petersburg, Virginia in the south, Portland, Maine in the northeast, Cleveland, Ohio in the northwest, and as far west as East St. Louis, Illinois.
The telegraph pole line located along the road of the Toledo and Ohio Central is owned by the Western Union Telegraph Company. Certain wires thereon are owned by the Toledo and Ohio Central and used by the telegraph company. Each company has incidental use of certain telegraph property owned by the other under agreement dated June 1, 1907.
Telegraph pole with spars, insulators and open wires on a now decommissioned Railway Pole Route, Eccles Road, Norfolk, United Kingdom. A pole route (or pole line in the US) is a telephone link or electrical power line between two or more locations by way of multiple uninsulated wires suspended between wooden utility poles. This method of link ...
The telegraph pole line located on the property of the Kanawha & Michigan, consisting of 152.88 miles of pole line and 409.43 miles of aerial wire, is wholly owned by the Kanawha & Michigan, but leased to the Western Union Telegraph Company under agreement of June 1, 1907, the Kanawha & Michigan reserving the right to jointly use the telegraph ...
Tarr, Joel A., Thomas Finholt, and David Goodman. "The city and the telegraph: urban telecommunications in the pre-telephone era." Journal of Urban History 14.1 (1987): 38–80. Thompson, Robert Luther. Wiring a Continent: The History of the Telegraph Industry in the United States, 1832-1866 (1947) ends in 1866; emphasis on Western Union online
It was established in 1872 as one of 12 stations along the Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin and is the best preserved of the 12. [2] Beechworth Telegraph Station, Beechworth is open as a visitor's center. [3] Eyre Telegraph Station, a repeater station that operated from the 1870s until 1927, on the Adelaide to Albany, Australia ...
Damage from the flood was widespread and extensive. The storm destroyed hundreds of bridges and railroad trestles and 12,000 telegraph and telephone poles. Flooding stopped communications between Chicago and New York for a day and a half, disrupted road and rail transportation, and slowed mail delivery.
The American Telegraph Company's lines occupied the entire region east of the Hudson River and ran all along the Atlantic coast down to the Gulf of Mexico. Cities were connected from Newfoundland to New Orleans. From this main backbone, the American Telegraph Company's lines branched west to cities like Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati. [3]