Posted by Delilah on Monday, November 5, 2012 at 8:07pm.
Before the telegraph, all message had to go by snail mail -- which often took weeks to cross the country.
After the telegraph, messages could be sent much more quickly. Until fairly recently, long distance phone calls were quite expensive -- especially for long distances. When I was living in Chicago in 1952, my great grandmother died in California. The family there sent a telegram to my mom to tell her of the death.
http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/telegraph.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy
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