Others came after them and added further improvements.

And it is gratifying to know that both Morse and Vail, as well as Cornell, lived to reap some return for their labor.

Morse lived to see his telegraph span the continent, and link the New World with the Old, and died in 1872 full of honors.
Prompt communication of the written or spoken message is a demand even more insistent than prompt transportation of men and goods.

By 1859 both the railroad and the telegraph had reached the old town of St.Joseph on the Missouri.

Two thousand miles beyond, on the other side of plains and mountains and great rivers, lay prosperous California.