His eyes were closed. The news went out by telegraph to cities and towns across the country.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Soon after the war began in eighteen sixty-one, military commanders started to send battlefield reports by telegraph.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

He got a job with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company where he worked as a telegraph operator.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

By that time, the use of the telegraph meant that newspapers could report on recent events.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

But they did not know that the telegraph office wires only went into the nearby forest.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Two men left the group to cut the telegraph lines east and west of Harpers Ferry.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The statement said the national government should own the country's railroads, telegraph,and telephone systems.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

It was no longer needed after a telegraph line was completed to San Francisco.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

He immediately sent it by telegraph to Confederate President Jefferson Davis at Montgomery,Alabama.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Quickly,companies began to build telegraph lines from one place to another.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

At that time he invented what he called his "harmonic telegraph."

VOA: special.2010.05.14

It was not a real telegraph office.

VOA: special.2009.02.11