Essays Tagged: "Western Union"

Telecommunication, Describes history of telecommunication from Telegraph to LAN's

and is considered the most valuable patent ever issued. Bell quickly tried to sell his invention to Western Union but they declined and hired Elisha Gray and Thomas Edison to invent a better telephone ... hired Elisha Gray and Thomas Edison to invent a better telephone. A telephone battle began between Western Union and Bell. Soon after Bell filed suit against Western Union and won since he had posses ...

(14 pages) 327 0 4.3 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

A historical criticism of Andrew Carnegie

a cotton mill as a bobbin boy. He was a hard worker, and quickly was promoted through the ranks of Western Union and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1865, he quit and started his own business, ...

(4 pages) 91 0 2.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Alexander Bell and how he came to make his invention.

of Bell's invention of the telephone came an avalanche of patent lawsuits and corporate maneuvers. Western Union Telegraph Company was the titan in the field of telegraphy and was not content to sit ... phone Company captured the spotlight. Feverishly working to develop their own telephone technology, Western Union employed two prominent inventors--Thomas A. Edison and Elisha Gray. Looking to protect ...

(4 pages) 49 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

A mock letter of someone in The Civil War

live as a country and accept the differences between us. What is life for you like fighting for the western Union Army? It must be way different from Maryland. It will be hard getting this letter to y ...

(2 pages) 27 0 2.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Two men who have been called robber barons were Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller

went to work as in a cotton mill (Kennedy). He then moved rapidly through a succession of jobs with Western Union and the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1865, he resigned to establish his own business ente ...

(4 pages) 25 1 5.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Innovation of the Telephone

he telephone, 1876, telegraph was firmly established and operating at a very high capacity, and the Western Union Telegraph Company was one of America?s wealthiest corporations. That was soon to chang ... was the focus of several inventors in the early 1870s, seeking to expand capacity on the cluttered Western Union system ? and a solution would be very valuable. Bell visited Wheatstone thereafter, an ...

(25 pages) 56 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Turkish-Greek Accessions to NATO

1948 so as to build a defense pact among each other, which later that year in September created the Western Union Defense Organization, in an environment where the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... ey for wanting to enter the Alliance were coming out of the popular discourses of every politician: westernization process and the fear of losing the American military and economic aids.Now, let us go ...

(6 pages) 43 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science