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The Recording Telegraph
Samuel Morse with Alfred Vail realized an electromechanical telegraph : the Recording Telegraph. The first commercial model was made three years after, in 1835-1836. -
Arrival of americans in California
More and more americans come in California : John Sutter decide to leave San Francisco because the number of peoples is overwhelming. This overpopulation destroyed his dream of a vast agricol empire. -
The first message
Morse sent a message from Washington with the telegraph to his colleague Vail (who was in Baltimore) : "what hath God wrought!"
Means a incredible Revolution for the transmission of the information. -
Texas entrance in the Union
Wish caused a new war between USA and Mexico. -
The magnetic Telegraph Company
By the spring he had attracted a small group of investors. They subscribed $15,000 and formed the Magnetic Telegraph Company. -
The first commercial telegraph line
The Magnetic Telegraph Company finished the first commercial telegraph line between Washington, DC, and New York City. -
James Marshall
James Marshall come to build a sawmill : James Marshall will sent here by John Sutter to build a sawmill at 50 miles north east to his fort. -
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interest to unite the country
The annexation of the California territory following the Mexican-American War, the discovery of gold in the region in 1848, and statehood for California in 1850 further spurred the interest to unite the country as thousands of immigrants and miners sought their fortune in the West -
James Marshall found gold
Something picked up the eyes of James Marshall. He was certain, it was gold. John Sutter and James Marshall made a pact to kept this discover secret. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
It concludes the end of the war between Mexico and USA and sign the Mexico abandonment of all the territory, in the north of Rio Grande, who he had.
By this text, Mexico sells a huge area of 1.36 million km2 in the US for $ 15 million US dollars. -
The beginning of the california gold rush
The secret of John Sutter and James Marshall had been discovered and more and more american come in California to found gold. -
California
California becomes the thirty-first State of the Union. -
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Secession War
The American civil was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. The seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The winners of the war is the North Union.The Civil War temporarily slowed the momentum of the conquest of the West. -
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The civil War increased the development of the telegraph
By the time of the Civil War, there was a strong commercial incentive to construct a telegraph line across the western plains to link the two coasts of America. Many companies, however, believed the line would be impossible to build and maintain. -
The first rail
The first rail (of the transcontinental railroad) was spiked days after Judah’s death. -
President Lincoln was assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. With this assassination, he wanted to created the chaos and the overthrow of the Union’s government. -
Completion of the transcontinental railroad
The transcontinental railroad was completed: the travel between the East Coast and San Francisco was six days long. Locomotives from the two railroads met nose-to-nose to signal the joining of the two lines: east and west encounter! -
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota,Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.He was on of the most famous battle between the indian and american people. The fight was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, inspired by the visi -
Wheatstone's Automatic Telegraph
An English automatic signaling arrangement, Wheatstone's Automatic Telegraph, 1883, allowed larger numbers of words to be transmitted over a wire at once. It could only be used advantageously, however, on circuits where there was a heavy volume of business. Buckingham's Machine Telegraph was an improvement on the House system. It printed received messages in plain Roman letters quickly and legibly on a message blank, ready for delivery.
