What Mark Zuckerberg Should Learn From 19th-Century Telegraph Operators No, really. By Megan Ward. May 27, 2024 10:00 AM. Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo/Slate.

To some, it may have seemed as out-of-this-world as would the idea of sending humans to the moon a century later. But 19th century entrepreneurs soon proved the concept could work, albeit on a ...

This Beautiful 19th-Century Org Chart Puts Your Company’s To Shame How information design solved a big problem for the Erie Railroad in the telegraph age. SHARE ...

The telegraph did for the 19th century what the smartphone has done for our time—it completely overhauled people’s expectations about information.

Essay; The Wiretappers Who Invented a High-Tech Crime Long before Americans worried about government or corporate surveillance, 19th-century criminals took advantage of a new technology to steal ...