Western Union Completes the First Transcontinental Telegraph Line
On October 24, 1861, workers of the Western Union Telegraph Company link the eastern and western telegraph networks of the nation at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that for the first time allows instantaneous communication between Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
This would have been so important for those who were living away from their families the ability to have any form of communication. Now days we have the internet and so many forms of communication to talk even around the world
I always thought Western Union was an astonishing invention.
ReplyDeleteThey do something similar now in third world countries and can send cash through cell phones.
Well.
D'oh.
Not the physical cash but the transfers.
This was an interesting post.
Thanks for the insight and history lesson i never knew.
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