The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 684
ies a wide territory, covering wholly, or inpart, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Utah, Idaho, Montana,Oregon, New Mexico, and Missouri, with 850 offices and 1,125 employes;originates 100,000 messages monthly, and receives over 500,000 words of pressreport. A large proportion of the Hnes… … John Jay Dickey.When the first line was built, under Col. Clowry and others, through theeastern portion of this now populous region, a device was used which singularlyillustrates the rude condition of the country. The construction of the Missouriand Western Telegraph Company has already been…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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