What happened in the 1860s?
🛤️ The establishment of the first transcontinental telegraph line in the USA (1861)
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First transcontinental telegraph - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
The Transcontinental Telegraph (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line (history.com)
Milestones:Transcontinental Telegraph, 1861 (ethw.org)
How Edward Creighton united a nation | University Relations (creighton.edu)
Transcontinental Telegraph Line (U.S.) (ethw.org)
1830s – 1860s: Telegraph | Imagining the Internet - Elon University (elon.edu)
Two Centuries of Experience in Water Resources Management (army.mil)
How the Railroad Won the War (si.edu)