In , they made paying bills easier by enabling customers to use Western Union to pay for auto loans, mortgages and other bills from thousands of businesses.
Eventually, WU. Visit WU. They were among the first companies to make sending text and images around the world accessible for everyone. In , the company introduced the Telex network, a communication system that would allow users to exchange and print telegraphs using automated machines.
By , Western Union had also made it possible to instantly send images using Telefax. And believe it or not, they were also ahead of the competition when it came to voice messages and email.
Available in over 35 countries, the app makes it possible to send money on the go from virtually anywhere. And thanks to the MTCN tracking number you can track your transfer directly from your phone and know exactly when it arrives with your receiver. Download the app. Additionally, their services allow customers to check exchange rates and make informed money transfer decisions from even the most remote locations. In order to send a telegram from Chicago to New York, for example, the message had to pass over the lines of several companies, and be retransmitted each time.
This often resulted in delays and mistakes. Many of these small companies eventually went bankrupt. A group of investors headed by Samuel Selden and Hiram Sibley set about consolidating the companies to provide reliable and geographically extensive telegraph service and, of course, to turn telegraphy into a highly profitable business. The new Western Union Company rebuilt poorly constructed lines and united them into a single network.
Western Union quickly adopted the invention of an automatic repeater, obviating the need for an operator to re-send attenuated signals. Western Union continued to acquire competitors, and by the time it completed a transcontinental line in connecting New York and California, it had obtained a near monopoly on the U.
The Western Union Telegraph Company transmitted the hottest news of the day. Courtesy: Library of Congress. Between and Western Union faced two major challenges to its monopoly. The first was an attempt to nationalize the telegraph and place it under the control of the Post Office.
Western Union officials spent much time and energy defending their private monopoly to the public and Congress and the telegraph remained a private enterprise. The second challenge ultimately proved far more serious. Bell offered to sell Western Union his patent, but Western Union refused and established a competing telephone system in the late s. The telegraph business thrived for almost a century, despite the telephony's proliferation, partly because a great many people still did not have a telephone, and partly because telegraphy provided a permanent communications record.
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