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OTD in 1861, the 1st transcontinental telegraph line was finished. That night, Pres. Lincoln got a telegraph from the West expressing hope that this new technology would "be a bond of perpetuity between the states of the Atlantic and those of the Pacific." https://t.co/2u6nLsUgcR https://t.co/OdEa7zgiaJ — PolitiTweet.org