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Telegraph
1994
Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
1962
Telegraph between Netherlands and Indonesia restored
1956
Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief, Sunday Telegraph
1945
Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief, Daily Telegraph
1944
Robert Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph
1933
Mt. Davidson Cross lit by Franklin D. Roosevelt via telegraph
1926
Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist, Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper
1923
1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
1920
Frank Rogers, CEO, NPA Telegraph
1908
Lord Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar
1903
Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1903
San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
1901
Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens
1900
Telegraph use between Germany and U.S. begins
1885
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1883
1st direct U.S. - Brazil telegraph connection
1882
Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco
1882
Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
1877
1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed
1876
Direct telegraph link established between Britain and NZ
1872
Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80
1867
1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck and Co, New York
1867
90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1866
Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1865
Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco
1862
Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time
1861
1st telegraph line linking West and East coasts completed
1861
U.S. marshals appropriate previous year's telegraph dispatches, to reveal prosecessionist evidence
1860
Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens
1858
Cyrus W. Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
1854
Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed
1853
1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos)
1852
Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
1852
Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1851
Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked
1851
Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked
1848
1st telegraph link between New York City and Chicago
1847
NY and Boston linked by telegraph wires
1847
1st U.S. telegraph co established in Maryland
1846
Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Balt
1844
Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
1844
Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg)
1840
Samuel Morse patents his telegraph
1838
1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes (NJ)
1838
Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1807
Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University
1791
Samuel Finley Breece Morse, U.S. painter/inventor, telegraph
1763
Claude Chappe, French engineer, optical telegraph
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