telegraph

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Patla compared the situation to communication before the telegraph, when handwritten letters crossed oceans by ship and replies took weeks or months to return.

From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025

In England, the author meets Gareth Parry, a physicist and industry historian who shows him the place where the British Empire’s telegraph cables once landed, and which is now a data-cable hub.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

I had tried to telegraph to the group that coming back was not a given, and I think the fact that a long time that elapsed also made that clear.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

The famed Pony Express, which rushed the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to California in November 1860, went out of business less than a year later, after the telegraph made coast-to-coast communications infinitely faster.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

That evening, the news from each state gradually came in by telegraph to Lawnfield’s campaign office.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow