Does Western Union send telegrams?
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.
In 1878, Western Union (by then the dominant telegraph company in the United States) decided to implement a new, secure scheme to enable sums of up to $100 to be transferred between several hundred towns by telegraph. #telegraph pic.twitter.com/l5RppSyMZ8
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Did you know?
Early telegrams famously used a Morse code 'key' and 'sounder' to send audible clicks over a wire that had to be transcribed by a human operator. Starting the 1930s, automated teletypes gradually replaced the old Morse code systems.
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