He obtained his first patent in 1841, and a second and third one for Electric Clocks and Telegraphs in 1843. He also, at this time, invented a telegraph to print the common alphabet, which was ...

Hugo Gernsback, who had a bus stop and a moon crater named after him, has been credited with several inventions ...

Independently invented in England and the United States, the electric telegraph soon crisscrossed continents with copper wire and linked them with underwater cables. Nimble-fingered operators sent ...