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8 sty 2011 · In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and his financial backer, Gardiner G. Hubbard, offered Bell's brand new patent (No. 174,465) to the Telegraph Company - the ancestor of Western Union. The President of the Telegraph Company, Chauncey M. DePew, appointed a committee to investigate the offer.
13 gru 2011 · Constructing an Industrial Divide: Western Union, AT&T, and the Federal Government, 1876–1971. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2011. David Hochfelder.
15 sie 2017 · Western Union Did Things Right, And the West Got the Message. Work crews completed the transcontinental telegraph in short order. The first transatlantic telegraph cable, completed on August 5, 1858, made it possible for a New York or Chicago merchant to send a message to London, the gold capital of the world, in a matter of minutes.
14 wrz 2017 · — Western Union internal memo, 1876 “Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” — Dr. Dionysius Lardner, 1830
Based on archival. research and building on an extensive literature by Robert Luther Thompson, Richard John, and others, Wolff's text studies the ways in which the history of Western Union illuminates key economic and political issues of the nineteenth.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 24, 1876. The case was argued before the court on December 1, 1875. In a 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia U.S. Circuit for (all) District (s) of Georgia.
9 paź 2015 · Alexander Graham Bell, the tale goes, facing financial ruin and unending legal battles over the patent rights to the telephone, offered in 1876 to sell his patent to Western Union, the telegraph company, for $100,000.
