It was in the middle of a war with Russia, which was not going well, that The Daily Telegraph was launched in 1855. The title of the new paper came from the world-changing technology of the electric ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The first telegraph wasn’t really the first. In the fourth century B.C.E., Tacitus, a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, invented the hydraulic telegraph. It ...

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Introduction -- I. Control. The Anglo-American crisis of 1812 ; Diplomatic autonomy and telecommunications -- II. Speed. The Trent affair ; Speed and diplomacy ; Diplomatic time -- III. The medium.