The Telegraph in America: Its Founders, Promoters, and Noted Men

James D. Reid

The Telegraph in America: Its Founders, Promoters, and Noted Men

New York

Derby Brothers

1879

While printed decades after telegraphy was an established method of communication, this book celebrates the earliest pioneer of the technology, Samuel F. B. Morse. In 1840 Morse demonstrated the telegraph between Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC after securing permission of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to use their right of way for his wires. Despite the success of the demonstration, the railroads would wait for 10 years before adopting it for their own operations.