Today in 1837, The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution requesting the Treasury Secretary, Levi Woodbury, to report to the House at its next session, “upon the propriety of establishing a system of telegraphs for the United States.”
“Of the eighteen responses that Woodbury received, seventeen assumed that the telegraph would be optical and t…
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