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Alice Springs Telegraph Station, preserved in the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Preserve. 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]
The Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine)—The biggest telegraph station in the world, now a museum; Distant Writing—The History of the Telegraph Companies in Britain between 1838 and 1868
The timeline of North American telegraphy is a chronology of notable events in the history of the electric telegraphy in the United States and Canada, including the rapid spread of telegraphic communications starting from 1844 and completion of the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861.
Du Boff, Richard B. "Business Demand and the Development of the Telegraph in the United States, 1844-1860" Business History Review, 54#4 (1980); pp. 459–479 online; Du Boff, Richard B. "The Telegraph in Nineteenth-Century America: Technology and Monopoly" Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26#4 (1984), pp. 571–586. Gabler, Edwin.
The two stations of Schilling's telegraph were connected by eight wires; six were connected with the galvanometers, one served for the return current and one for a signal bell. When at the starting station the operator pressed a key, the corresponding pointer was deflected at the receiving station.
Monument in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, marking the approximate location where the first transcontinental telegraph line was completed.. The first transcontinental telegraph (completed October 24, 1861) was a line that connected the existing telegraph network in the eastern United States to a small network in California, by means of a link between Omaha, Nebraska and Carson City, Nevada ...
Local depot telegraph operators would keep track of train arrival times at each station (referred to as "OSing" the train) and pass the information on to other operators and the dispatcher. The local depot operator would also set the track switches to enable the inferior train to pull into the siding upon the approach of the superior train.
An optical telegraph is a line of stations, ... Paul (ed) (2003) 'Chapter 17: The optical telegraph' Communication in History: Technology, Culture and Society ...