What is Telegram?
{{about|general methods of telegraphy|the messaging service|Telegram (software)|the 1971 adventure movie|Telegram (movie)}} [[File:1891 Telegraph Lines.jpg|thumb|320px|World wiring, ca. 1891]][[File:Happy Christmas Mr Bowbrick.jpg|thumb|A telegram sent for christmas, in 1951]] A '''telegram''' (Greek tele: distant and gramma: letter) is a written message transmitted by using an electric device. The message was carried along wires, and the text written or printed and delivered by hand or [[teleprinter]]. Telegrams were very widely used, because private telephones were not usual. Nowadays they are not useful because most people have private [[telephones]] and the use of [[e-mail]]. The idea was developed by the [[British]] [[Royal Mail|Post Office]] as a service for urgent letters. == Related pages == *[[Telegraphy]] == Other websites == {{wiktionary-inline}} {{stub}} [[Category:Postal services]]