Vernal Express | 1978-12-28 | Page 11 | From Wire to Westar

Wire to i I HiT ml mT j Mi telegraph first spanned America A in that the same company would be pio- in space in the But exactly what years young this is Back in 1861 10 years its birth fledgling company erected poles and strung wire mountains and desert in a surprising three months and 20 Experts had predicted the project would take 10 years to com- microwave network long since re- placed those early poles and but m keeping with its pioneering Western Union launched I A Wester II America's first domestic communications satellites-in the two satellites are in orbit miles above the transmitting mes- ot the speed of light to major earth stations serving 20 metropolitan areas and virtually every area of the HaPPy