Two Weeks to Two Minutes
On July 27, 1866, a working telegraph cable finally came ashore in Newfoundland — and the world got its first taste of instant communication.
Tales from the year 1866
America's First Train Robbery
On October 6, 1866, the Reno brothers boarded an Ohio & Mississippi train near Seymour, Indiana, and invented a brand-new American crime: robbing a moving train.