This chapter in history cannot be stressed enough. Only 20 years earlier, there was no mass transportation. No mass communication. No trains. No cars. No postal service.

The Second Industrial Revolution changed everything.

A good article on the telegraph by the Smithsonian Institution:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...

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