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Telegraph
 Websites presented in alphabetical order The Great Transatlantic Cable 
 Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary about the undersea cable placed between the U.S. and Britain in the 1860s to allow telegraph contact. Features a timeline, cable jokes, and details about people and events, such as Cyrus Field ("father of the transatlantic cable"), Matthew Fontaine Maury (the person who calculated the cable route), and natural plastic gutta-percha that insulated the cable. Also includes a teacher's guide and transcript. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/cable/ Topics: Technology Last updated Feb 6, 2008 Invention and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, A Nineteenth Century Life
This site is a biographical exhibition and timeline of philanthropist Ezra Cornell. Includes letters, diaries, photographs, documents, and publications of the founder of the Western Union Telegraph Company and Cornell University. A presentation of the Cornell University Library. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Ezra-exhibit/ Topics: Correspondence, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Technology Last updated Oct 2, 2004 MarconiCalling
A detail-rich, digital archive drawn from the extensive Marconi Collection housed at Chelmsford, England. The site provides an in-depth look at Guglielmo Marconi, the wireless telegraph company he founded, and their impact on the interconnected lives that we live today. The site provides links to other useful resources, a bibliography, a timeline, and a searchable archive that includes photographs, film clips, sound clips, newspaper articles, artifacts, and telegrams sent and received by the Titanic . http://www.marconicalling.com/html/ Topics: Technology Last updated Oct 2, 2004 Porthcurno Telegraph Museum
Website for this British museum in Porthcurno, "once the world's most important cable station. ... In 1941 this important communications site was relocated under ground to protect it from enemy attack." Features a photographic tour of the museum, annotated images of featured objects (such as a Morse Code machine), and details about people and technology (such as principles of telegraphy and construction of telegraph cables). Also includes local history material about Porthcurno. http://www.porthcurno.org.uk/ Topics: Technology Last updated Jan 2, 2008 Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress
This collection documents Morse's invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, role in developing telegraph systems, "career as a painter, his family life, his travels, and his interest in early photography, religion, and the nativist movement." Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, maps, drawings, and material from various publications. Also features a biographical timeline and a family tree. Searchable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/ Topics: Correspondence, Electrical Energy, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Science, Technology Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Western Union Telegraph Company Records, 1820-1995
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. http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/fa_wu_index.aspx Topics: Business, Industries, Technology Last updated Feb 8, 2006 |
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