Evolution of the telegraph and the rise of the Bell system
A historical account traces early electrical telegraph experiments from Benjamin Franklin to Morse, highlighting the voltaic battery breakthrough, key tests along the Baltimore and Ohio line, and Morse’s pivotal role. It details early Washington offices, tariff, first lines, later consolidations into the Western Union framework, and the growth of the telephone network with Chesapeake and Potomac, culminating in widespread underground cables and major system expansions.
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Nis
Steatest
Munis
Joseph Haury
Smithsonian Institution
Morse
General Electric
Itile
Tiana
Morae
Baltimore and Ohio
Wallington
Baltimore
Washington
Capitol
Europe
Hes Ao
United States
Borde
Seventh Street
General Land Office
Sixth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
National Hotel
House Printing
Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company
American ‘Telegraph Company
Gret
American Commercial Development
Western Union Telegraph Company
Belleysteth
Thera
Chesapeake’ and Potomac Telephone Company
Bell System
Severy State
Upton
New-York’ Avenue
National Capital Telephone
Gardner G. Hubbard
Willem Barnard
Earge C. Maynard
Menage
Cheadpeake
Potomac
Tatephone
New York
Cwes
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Boston
Chicago
Omaha
Main
North
Téncoin
Columbia
Cleve- Yana
West
Takoma
Sloppe
le &. Porter
Barclay
Ita
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Alona
Uman
Jam T
Breswahan
Morris F. Tyler
National Capital Telephone Company
Maryland Telephone Company
District of Columbia
Maryland
Laurel
Tina
Central Office
New York Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Vermont Avenue
Ly ‘Street
Evolution of Washington Pharmacy From Early Merchants to Regulation
A sprawling retrospective traces Washington DC drug trade from private line beginnings in 1818 to modern regulation. It notes growth in residences, shifts from general goods to medicines, emergence of pharmacists as experts, and organized druggists pushing laws and licensing for quality control.
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Washington, D. C
Frank C. Henry
W. S. Richardson
National Capital
Portman’s Pharmacy
A. F. B. Portman
Fourteenth Street
F. Ashington
D. C
Guy M.neely
Eleventh Street
Washington, D.C
King’s Drug Store
Fifteenth and
Eye Streets
14Th and
Mass. Ave
Wits
Shorty
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EE P. Baker
Weller's Drug Store
Heory W. Smith
Aloysine B. ‘Bishorn
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Four-and-s-hart
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Chesapeake and Botomac Telephone Company
District’ of Columbia
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Netonal Museum
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Charles £. Lanman
Lanman Engraving Co
Ilustratore
Rand Geet
POST
Penns. Ave. N
Salisbury, N. C
Chas Arey CO
Pennsylvania Ave. N. W
WE Brunswick Balke Collender CO
Thirteenth Street
Campbell’s
13Th Street
Palm Garden
Ad Electric
Seatte
Lafayette Turkish and
Belasco Theater
White Hote
Robert Guard
Geo. W. Knox Express
Pa. Ave
Penneytvania
R. Morfolk
Washington Steamboats
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