The term “wire transfer” comes from an era when banks relied on telegraph wires to communicate this kind of money transfer. A bank wire consists of instructions about who will get the money ...

While we all brag about how fast social media travels, it wasn’t long ago when the fastest communication were wires strewn ...

which should be able to transmit several times as many dispatches per hour over a telegraph wire as can be done by the Morse instrument. The theory upon which all the experimenters in this ...

Although in a vacuum electric current can be expected to travel at nearly the speed of light, telegraph wires, particular those placed underwater, suffer from a retardation of the signals sent ...

2 the covering wires of the cable are Uirued buck over ... At a recent meeting of the Transatlantic Telegraph Company, held in London, the capital was increased to meet additional expenses ...

To millions of Americans, the 113-year-old Western Union Telegraph Co. means bicycling messengers in green uniforms, miles of wire-carrying poles along railroad tracks and yellow shafts of light ...

Mr. S. Alfred Varley. He remarked that when lightning storms occur in the neighbourhood of telegraph wires, although the wires may not be actually struck, powerful currents are induced in them ...