From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Telegraph Outline

The Hydraulic Telegraph
(350 BCE)

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

The Chappe Telegraph
(1794)

The First Working Electric Telegraph
(1816)

The Morse Code
(1837)

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

Telegraph Apparatus Adopted throughout England
(1845)

Sending Weather Information by Telegraph
(1847)

The First Telegraph Cable between England and France
(1850)

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

Speeding Communication between Paris and London
(1854)

Cyrus Field Intends to Lay an Atlantic Cable
(1854)

Printing Telegraph Messages
(1855)

The Atlantic Telegraph Company
(1856)

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

Reuters Expands, Following Telegraph Lines
(1858)

The Second Attempt to Lay an Atlantic Cable Succeeds, Briefly
(June 25, 1858)

Communication on the Cable Fails Within 3 Weeks
(August 16, 1858)

New York and San Francisco are Connected by Telegraph
(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 First Significant Series of Illustrations in Daily Newspaper
(June 30, 1875)

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

The Wheeler Gift Catalogue
(1909)

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

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