First transcontinental telegraph
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title:
First transcontinental telegraph
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The first transcontinental telegraph was a line that connected the existing telegraph network in the eastern United States to a small network in California, by means of a link between Omaha, Nebraska and Carson City, Nevada, via Salt Lake City. It was a milestone in electrical engineering and in the formation of the United States. It served as the only method of near-instantaneous communication between the east and west coasts during the 1860s. For comparison, in 1841, the news of the death of P
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First telegraph line between the eastern and western United States, completed in 1861
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_telegraph
date created:
2006-11-25T23:59:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T14:58:58Z
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