What was the best way to spread information? Everything from news, gossip, and emergencies
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The Telegraph and newspapers, news from point A would be send by telegraph to point B and then distributed to the public by newspaper. That system was the main communication method from 1830, when telegraph was invented, until the invention of better methods like radio and telephone.
The Telegraph was almost real time communion so if you had a telegraph cable that connected to distant points, like Lisboa in Portugal and Moscow in Russia you could send information almost instantly between the two points. One of the most expensive communication projects of the time was the construction of a trans-oceanic telegraph cable, it was relatively easy to connect any two places as long as there wasn’t a big water-body in the middle of your way but if you had say the Atlantic Ocean the project became really difficult and expensive, so for a long time communion was limited between Europe and the US, the news had to travel by ship.
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