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The US Postal Service operated a telegraph service more than thirty years before Marconi was born. The US government subsequently funded the first undersea cabl
by bastawhiz 5y ago
The US Postal Service operated a telegraph service more than thirty years before Marconi was born. The US government subsequently funded the first undersea cables, and then the first transcontinental telegraph line. This was all before Marconi was born.
During the American civil war, the North's US Military Telegraph Corp ran 15,000 miles of cable.
Additionally, Marconi didn't invent the telegraph, he invented the radio telegraph.
- WalterBright 5y agoThe first undersea cable was partially funded by the British and US governments. It was a failure. The second one, that worked, was financed through stock sales. As for the Civil War, of course the military funded it's expansion. Communications are absolutely essential to a military. For comparison, two years after Morse's 40 mile experimental line in 1846, there was 2,000 miles of wire. 2 years after that, 12,000 miles and twenty companies. In 1852, 23,000 miles, with another 10,000 miles under construction. 9 years before the military began stringing wire. -- The Victorian Internet