Alfred Vail, of Morristown, N. J., gave the writer an account oi the receipts of the telegraph at the Washington oflace during the first four days of its operation, after it had been taken under ...

The theme of this year’s contest is ‘Time’ – a subject tackled by everyone from Emily Dickinson to Simon Armitage ...

Ironically Albany’s Joseph Henry did a similar thing and his invention of the electromagnet was responsible for the telegraph invention in the first place. In 1879 Western Union’ stopped ...