TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONES. Cleveland's connection to the rest of the U.S. by telegraph line was a communications breakthrough essential to the city's commercial and industrial development. During ...

In my past two Cannonball blog posts, we learned about railroad ticket agent Joseph Leib, conductor John Eckert, and telegrapher Daniel Trone and their efforts to escape from Hanover and Hanover ...

Now we come to what I consider the “fun” part of this article: Granville Woods’ inventions and patents. There are some who say that the number of patents Woods obtained is at least 60, may be even ...

Last week I began this discussion of Civil War infrastructure in Arkansas with a look at roads, railroads, bridges, and manufacturing of war material. The story continues with a look at telegraphy, ...

Father wouldn`t give me permission to go into the services but my mother, who was of an understanding disposition, signed the form for the Wrens without his knowing; he gave in gracefully when my ...

A VERY large number of books on radio telegraphy and radio telephony have recently been published. Many are of little use to the general scientific reader because they are too elementary; others fail ...

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