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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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