A Conversation for Twitter, 1910
Telegrams must have been a godsend and a revelation
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation Nov 5, 2020
Marconi worked on his telegraph in the 1830s and 1840s. I know the photo was circa 1910, by which time telephones also existed. People still sent telegrams then. Telegrams survived until about 2013. 180+ years was a pretty good record. 
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