NEB&W Guide to Telegraph/Telephone Poles

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Last Update: 2009-03-04

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This section covers the line of poles that parallel railroad tracks. For the poles that carried electrical power and telephone lines that ran alongside street and roads, see this section.

Introduction

Legend has it that Samual Morse's original idea was to run the wires of his new magnetic telegraph in a buried cast-iron pipe. He obtained permission from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to bury the cable alongside their right-of-way to run the first telegraph from Baltimore, MD to Washington, DC.

NEB&W Guide to Telegraph/Telephone Poles

Introduction

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