It was in the middle of a war with Russia, which was not going well, that The Daily Telegraph was launched in 1855. The title of the new paper came from the world-changing technology of the electric ...

The world’s first telegraph message relayed the biblical phrase “What hath God wrought?” and was brought about by Samuel Morse in 1844. This historic moment may not be the right one to be recognized, ...

On a brisk afternoon in Washington, D.C., on December 13, 1844, an unusual sight drew curious onlookers to the U.S. Capitol. A tangle of wires, wooden poles, and odd-looking electrical boxes had been ...

At first it might seem like Buhrman’s hobby is something akin to model trains, something that is a private reflection of another time and seemingly another place. He has a dedicated building off from ...