In 1882, Oskar von Miller and Marcel Deprez, early pioneers of direct current (DC) in Germany, transmitted 1.25 Amps of current using an iron telegraph wire 35 miles between Miesbach and Munich.

The Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, was enacted during British rule to regulate telegraphy, then the cutting-edge technology of the time ...

Telegraphy, which conferred the ability to send messages at great speed across vast distances,""had the potential to transform diplomacy,"" writes Nickles, and, as a historian at the Department of ...