Episode 199: The Telegraph: Charleston’s First Information Superhighway
Apr 23, 2021•33 min
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Episode description
Although the telegraph is functionally irrelevant in the 21st century, its legacy is more important to our modern lifestyles than we realize. The advent of the telegraph in the 1840s sparked a bold new era of telecommunication that connected South Carolina to an international conversation and brough Charleston “one line” in the winter of 1848.
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