tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post8540658517428243102..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Clues to the Constitutional TelegrapheUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-64066598606758907412013-11-17T22:21:35.740-05:002013-11-17T22:21:35.740-05:00I think the link is correct, but some postings abo...I think the link is correct, but some postings about "Harvard College" have snuck into the "Harvard" stack. Thanks for the alert.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-47071344019107147092013-11-17T14:09:05.835-05:002013-11-17T14:09:05.835-05:00Great series of articles on The Constitutional Tel...Great series of articles on <i>The Constitutional Telegraphe</i> and the contemporary meaning behind the name. Your research seems to quite literally underscore Jeffrey Pasley's (2001) thesis of political newspapers and emergent political parties as a communication network. Dr. Samuel Stillman Parker was originally from Harvard, Mass., not Harvard College as the current hypertext link indicates.Kristine A. L. Tomlinsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-63663227566546540112012-11-20T09:30:17.238-05:002012-11-20T09:30:17.238-05:00Fascinating! For those interested, "What hath...Fascinating! For those interested, "What hath God wrought" (Numbers 23:23:) was the message Samuel Morse had sent on May 24, 1844 to demonstrate the working telegraph. Evidently, members of Congress were witness to this new tech.Byron DeLearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-89136044921194172462012-11-20T09:25:17.189-05:002012-11-20T09:25:17.189-05:00In the early 1800s, the term "telegraph"...In the early 1800s, the term "telegraph" referred to a system of visual signals, such as flags or semaphores, by which information could be transmitted over distance. After state government moved out of the building, the tower of Boston's Old State House was used as the final station of such a system, which announced the arrival of local merchants' ships in Boston Harbor.Charles Bahnenoreply@blogger.com