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 ...

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.

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 ...