Search Results
-
1837William Fothergill Cook and Charles Wheatstone first patent the electrical telegraph.
-
1838The first successful commercial use of the electrical telegraph for the Great Western Railway between Paddington Station and West Drayton.
-
24 May 1844Samuel Morse uses his morse code electrical telegraph for the first time.
-
1850Alexander Bain invents an electrical telegraph machine that can send and receive messages using perforated strips of paper.
-
1856The Western Union Telegraph Company is created in the United States.
-
1866The SS Great Eastern lays the first transatlantic electrical telegraph cable.
