Telegraph Timeline Outline

Faster than a Messenger on Horseback
(March 2, 1791)

The Chappe Telegraph
(1794)

The First Working Electric Telegraph
(1816)

Origins of the Morse Code
(1837)

The First Commercial Electric Telegraph
(July 25, 1837 – January 1, 1845)

Morse Transmits the First Message by Morse Code
(May 24, 1844)

Sending Weather Information by Telegraph
(1847)

The Associated Press is Founded
(1848)

The First Telegraph Cable between England and France
(1850 – November 13, 1851)

Using a Fleet of 200 Carrier Pigeons and the Telegraph
(1851)

Speeding Communication between Paris and London
(1852)

Cyrus Field Intends to Lay an Atlantic Cable
(1854 – 1856)

Printing Telegraph Messages
(1855)

Cyrus Field and Partners Found The Atlantic Telegraph Company
(1856)

The First Attempt to Lay the Atlantic Cable Fails
(1857)

Reuters Expands, Following Telegraph Lines
(1858)

The Atlantic Cable Operates Successfully for Three Weeksication on the Cable Fails Within 3 Weeks
(August 16 – September 18, 1858)

The Pony Express
(April 3, 1860 – October 26, 1861)

The Origins of Network Neutrality
(June 16, 1860)

New York and San Francisco are Connected by Telegraph
(October 24, 1861)

The Atlantic Cable Snaps after 1200 Miles
(July 1865)

The Third and Successful Atlantic Cable
(July 27, 1866)

9,158,000,000 Telegraph Messages
(1870)

British Telegraph is Nationalized
(1870)

The Baudot Code, The First Means of Digital Communication
(1870 – 1874)

The First Significant Series of Illustrations in a Daily Newspaper
(June 30, 1875)

AT&T is Founded
(March 3, 1885 – 1892)

Most of the Civilized World is Connected by Telegraph
(1900)

The Wheeler Gift Catalogue of the History of Electricity and Telegraphy
(1909)

The First Demonstration of Remote Computing
(September 11, 1940)

The Use of Telegraphy Peaks in the U.S.
(1945)