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Identifier: belltelephonemag23amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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atfirst by any chance messenger whocould be prevailed upon to carrythem. Later these informal meansof communication were supplanted byothers, such as the Overland Mailand the Pony Express, which in turngave way to the first transcontinentaltelegraph line. They were hard-liv-ing, hard-fighting folk, these pioneerswho pressed westward, but there was 1944 A Century of Electrical Communication 47 in them a well defined streak ofsentiment. They might but rarelyuse the telegraph lines as a meansof keeping in touch with their rela-tives and friends—but it gave thema sense of satisfaction to know thatthe lines were there to use, if theywere needed. The necessities whichbrought the era of electrical com- truth need be hardly more thanstated. Doubtless the United Stateswould have had a history during theone hundred years that began onMay 24, 1844, had there been notelegraph; but doubtless it wouldhave been a far different history. The twelve years during whichMorse was working to perfect his
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In Washington on May 24, 1844 munication into being were, in part,social necessities. In a democracy, economic and so-cial relations are closely akin to thosewhich are purely political. That thetelegraph and, later, other forms ofelectrical communication for which itled the way, have had a bearing onthe political development of theUnited States is so apparent that the invention and win recognition for itlay, roughly speaking, midway be-tween two wars. The War of 1812had quite clearly settled some ques-tions which the Revolution had leftunsolved—as, for example, the ques-tion of interference by foreign powersin the affairs of the new republic.The War between the States was tosettle another question that was be- 48 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING coming acute when the telegraph wasborn—the question of just what wasimplied by calling the American na-tion a more perfect union. Before the outbreak of the secondof these two conflicts, the UnitedStates was to engage in the MexicanWar, whi

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