The Carrington Event, occurring in the infancy of the electric industrial age, interrupted railroad service in much of the United States for several days, as it made telegraphy between stations, on ...

ROCKY HILL, N.J.—Jeff Bernardis had to keep the trains running on time. Perched at a bank of computer monitors, he relayed orders to the engineers of nearly a dozen trains ferrying oil, beer ...

We herewith give, as promised, an extract from the Report of the President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, on the subject of “fast” telegraphy. It has a certain historical value and is ...

UK: Austrian railway construction and maintenance contractor Swietelsky has acquired 100% of the shares of locomotive hire, storage and maintenance company Harry Needle Railroad Co. The purchase for a ...

Many Black inventors struggled through hardship, poverty, and, in some circumstances, slavery. Still, they prevailed and proved their genius to the world. The following are but a few of the many ...

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