Is there a national USA telegram service?
The national telegram service in the USA is provided by iTelegram, who took over from Western Union in 2006. Western Union became the first nationwide telegram company in America when it merged several local telegram companies in 1856. By the 1990s Western Union had reshaped into a money transfer service, and finally assigned to iTelegram the famous national telegram service.
Muriel Pare, a switching clerk during a Western Union telegram office, Washington, D.C.
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Did you know?
The first american telegram was sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse in 1844 over an experimental line from Washington, DC to Baltimore. The message said "What hath God wrought" taken from the Bible, Numbers 23:23.
Resources
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