. Bulletin. Science. Figure 31.âMorse's relay plan of 1837. From J. Raid, The Telegraph in America, New York, 1879, P- 80. carried practically no traffic. Little revenue from Morse's telegraph had come in by the end of the year; and when Morse offered to sell his invention to the Government, the offer was rejected. In May 1845, Morse and his associates formed a private company, the Magnetic Telegraph Company, in order to exploit their invention. They immedi- ately set about expanding their telegraph facilities and by June 1846 they could exchange messages between Washington and New York. The d
. Bulletin. Science. Figure 31.âMorse's relay plan of 1837. From J. Raid, The Telegraph in America, New York, 1879, P- 80. carried practically no traffic. Little revenue from Morse's telegraph had come in by the end of the year; and when Morse offered to sell his invention to the Government, the offer was rejected. In May 1845, Morse and his associates formed a private company, the Magnetic Telegraph Company, in order to exploit their invention. They immedi- ately set about expanding their telegraph facilities and by June 1846 they could exchange messages between Washington and New York. The declara- tion of war between Mexico and the United States one month previous to this accomplishment gave additional impetus to the further expansion of the telegraph, and, from that time on, use of the telegraph grew rapidly in the United States.'^ Telegraph lines reached St. Louis by December 1847, and New Orleans by the following July. The initial successes of the Magnetic Telegraph Company led to the establishment of a number of rival organizations. Some of these companies were formed for purely speculative purposes and many of these did not last, but a few survived by consolidating among them,selves. Others were organized for the purpose of gathering and reporting news, and one of these companies was the New York Associated Press, formed in 1848 by several New York newspapers to provide a reliable source for domestic news. Unlike the British, the American railroad companies did not realize the value of this new invention for the dispatch- ing of trains and for the coordination of train move- ments until the early 1850's. These two inventions, the railroad and the telegraph, worked together in the opening of the American West. A particularly en- ergetic organization in this expansion was the West- ern Union Telegraph Company, which was formed in 1856 under the direction of Hiram Sibley who merged a number of existing facilities. By 1861 the telegraph system had reached Calif
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