print email comment close Western Union Telegraph Company Records, 1820-1995 URL: http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/fa_wu_index.aspx Description: This listing of Western Union Telegraph Company records begins with a concise history of the telegraph, including Samuel F.B. Morse's invention of the early telegraph, the Morse Code system, further developments that allowed Roman letters to be sent in addition to dots and dashes, early commercial telegraph services, the 1860 Pacific Telegraph Act, and the history of Western Union Telegraph Company. From the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution. Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Extra Keywords telegram Library of Congress Subject Headings: Telegraph -- History Western Union Telegraph Company LII Database Information: Record 20597 created by Jennifer English on 02/07/2006 Last modification on 02/08/2006 Published: 02/09/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20597