The first transcontinental telegraph message
The first transcontinental telegraph message
The facts
| Dates | AD 1861 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The first transcontinental telegraph message falls 5865 years out from Creation at the centre. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
The American Declaration of IndependenceAD 1776The invention of the cotton ginAD 1793The discovery of the Rosetta StoneAD 1799The publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”AD 1859The completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the U.SAD 1869The establishment of Yellowstone National Park in the U.SAD 1872The invention of the telephone by Alexander Graha BellAD 1876Thomas Edison invents the phonographAD 1877
Now see where it sits
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