Sentence examples for telegraph network from inspiring English sources

In 1859, as the president of the Placerville and Humboldt [Overland] Telegraph Company, he obtained funding from the U.S. government to extend his telegraph network eastward.

One telegraph network needed to be able to speak to another.

The German conglomerate Siemens laid the Russian state telegraph network in the 1850s.

They used the telegraph network (maintained by operators disguised as rioters) to track "plague spots" breaking out around the city.

As technology moved on, first the telegraph network and then the telephone exchange became the metaphor of choice.

At first, the telegraph network was not used for what would become a main function: managing the railroad system.

It was adopted as the European standard in 1851, allowing direct connections between the telegraph networks of different countries.

It changed its name to Western Union five years later to mark the linking of western and eastern telegraph networks into one system.

During these years, Britain constructed a series shipping, rail and telegraph networks to achieve a set of military and commercial goals.

The inverted pyramid style of journalism, according to Mr. Schudson, became standard practice only in 1900, four decades or more after telegraph networks came into use.

The concept of a global communications network, with all the associated concerns about privacy, security, taxation, and electronic marketing scams, dates back to the development of telegraph networks in the 1800s.