In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the ...

The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named ...

J.J. Grandville, "Merlin the Enchanter causing, in broad daylight, night to descend on the telegraph" (1835), pen and wash on paper (image courtesy Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy) Success! Your account ...

In 1839, Samuel Morse was in Paris to obtain a patent for the electro-magnetic telegraph he had developed in America, when he caught wind of another scientific wonder of the age: the daguerreotype.