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Telegraph

Telegraph
In 1848 the first press agency, the Associated Press, was born when a group of New York editors decided to share costs of transmitting and receiving telegraph news. The telegraph enabled newspaper publishers to bring to their readers the most current news. The first Morse telegraph, used in 1844, is shown here.
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