On June 16, 1860 — just ten weeks after the Pony Express began operations, Congress authorized the building of a transcontinental telegraph line to connect the Missouri River with the West Coast.

The state Public Utilities Commission has final say over rate hikes for millions of Southern California residents, but all ...

It's 45 years later, and a transcontinental trade war with Canada, declared by President Donald Trump, has broken out.

Western Union completed its transcontinental telegraph system that October 150 years ago, allowing telegrams to be sent coast to coast for the first time. Within days, the 18-month-old Pony ...

Congress passed a bill to subsidize the construction of a transcontinental telegraph line. The government did fund the Pony Express during its later months—just not through Russell, Majors ...

Wrecking a national bulwark makes sense if Poilievre is fine with foreign assimilation. What would Machiavelli say?

The Public Utilities Commission was created as the Railroad Commission in the late 1870s, after the completion of the transcontinental ... gas, telegraph and telephone service under the agency ...

telegraph and steamboat, the United States grew into one of the world’s leading industrial powers. Meanwhile, the country had become a transcontinental empire, which these innovations in ...

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