The Telegraph by aufgebauer

Vue • Historical • posted on Mar 30, 2008

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Western Union was founded in Rochester, New York, in 1851 as The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. After a series of acquisitions of competing companies by Hiram Sibley and Don Alonzo Watson the company changed its name to Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 at the insistence of Ezra Cornell, one of the founders of Cornell University, to signify the joining of telegraph lines from coast to coast. Western Union completed the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861. In 1865 it formed the Russian American Telegraph in an attempt to link America to Europe, via Alaska, into Siberia, to Moscow. The telegraph was dominated by Western Union, an industrialized monopoly. They were the first communications empire and the beginning of what was to come for the future of communications as it is known today. -see also wikipedia- Thanks for looking. Andreas

Comments (15)

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FrenchKiss

4:16AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Stunning scene! Love the scale of this and the sky and lighting are beautiful.

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Thelby

5:41AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Very Cool work and Nice History Lesson!!!

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lingrif

6:26AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Excellent image - you've captured that frosty feeling

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bigbraader

6:42AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Excellent scene & render, superb lighting.

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SapUS59

8:57AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

superb image and render !!

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Stardust_Crossing

9:16AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Great imagination and composition! Excellent lighting and superb atmosphere!

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jrdesigns

10:25AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Excellent image!

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sackrat

10:57AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

WOW ! This is very good.

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Jilly

11:41AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Excellent

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timefighter

11:57AM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Well done!

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danway

1:52PM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Very good work!

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Xorron

4:18PM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Excellent atmosphere and mood ;o)

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kjer_99

9:48PM | Sun, 30 March 2008

Very photo-realistic and a great history lesson. I live fairly close to St. Joseph, Missouri, where the Pony Express originated. The telegraph eclisped that mail operation after about two glorious years.

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