[GreenKeys] Where was the "Telegraph" in AT&T?

[Richard Knoppow]

AFAIK, and I am sure there are those who know more, AT&T did not have a 
telegram service. They may have leased telegraph lines and certainly 
leased Teletype circuits but did not have a telegraph message service 
like Western Union or Postal Telegraph. I have keys and other 
instruments marked AT&T but I think these were used on internal circuits.
     WU and during its relatively short life Postal Telegraph, were 
message services. One could send messages via telephone, messenger or 
local offices. Again, AFAIK AT&T never had any such service.

On 2/2/2025 4:43 PM, Harold Hallikainen via GreenKeys wrote:
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> On Sun, February 2, 2025 4:32 pm, Bruce Gentry via GreenKeys wrote:
>> For a few weeks I have been viewing YouTube videos of the Connections
>> Museum in Seattle, Wa. They are a living museum of telephone gear,
>> especially the central office switching systems. They also have a
>> display of operational Teletypes. However, how did one send a telegram
>> via AT&T? Were the machines for communications within the telephone
>> network offices only? For decades I have enjoyed the machines, but aside
>> from Western Union and private networks on railroads, know very little
>> else about how AT&T carried messages and who they carried them for.
>>
>>   Â Â  Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
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> It was TWX. See
> https://web.archive.org/web/20121209103153/http://www.baudot.net/docs/att--exits-telegraph-biz.pdf
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
SKCC 19998