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telegram wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 terminology 2 delivery services 3 length and style 4 derived uses 5 see also 6 references 7 sources toggle the table of contents telegram 35 languages العربية azərbaycanca български català čeština deutsch esperanto español eesti suomi français magyar հայերեն արեւմտահայերէն bahasa indonesia italiano қазақша 한국어 къарачай малкъар nederlands norsk nynorsk norsk bokmål polski română русский srpskohrvatski српскохрватски simple english shqip српски srpski svenska kiswahili türkçe українська oʻzbekcha ўзбекча ייִדיש edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia message sent through telegraphy for the instant messaging service see telegram software for other uses see telegram disambiguation a telegram is a written or printed message originally sent through telegraphy the use of the telegrams was popular for social and business correspondence in the latter half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century even in the telephone age the telegram remained popular and spawned its own style of writing that in turn persisted in other media telegram services still exist today though the popularity has largely waned replaced by other forms of text communication western union telegram sent to president dwight eisenhower wishing him a speedy recovery from his heart attack on sept 26 1955 terminology edit initially telegrams were sent by an electrical telegraph operator or telegrapher using morse code or a printing telegraph operator using plain text a cablegram was a message sent by a submarine telegraph cable 1 often shortened to cable or wire 2 the suffix gram is derived from ancient greek γραμμα gramma meaning something written i e telegram means something written at a distance and cablegram means something written via a cable whereas telegraph implies the process of writing at a distance delivery services edit see also worldwide use of telegrams by country western union telegram 1930 a telegram service is a company or public entity that delivers telegrams directly to the recipient telegram services were inaugurated after electric telegraphy became available historically telegrams were sent between a network of interconnected telegraph offices a person visiting a local telegraph office paid by the word to have a message telegraphed to another office and delivered to the addressee on a paper form 3 messages i e telegrams sent by telegraph could be delivered by telegraph messenger faster than mail 4 the electric telegraph freed communication from the time constraints of postal mail and revolutionized society and the global economy 5 a decline that began with the growth of the use of the telephone 6 was briefly postponed by the rise of special occasion congratulatory telegrams traffic continued to grow between 1867 and 1893 despite the introduction of the telephone in this period 7 at their peak in 1929 an estimated 200 million telegrams were sent 7 in 1919 the central bureau for registered addresses was established in the financial district of new york city the bureau was created to ease the growing problem of messages being delivered to the wrong recipients to combat this issue the bureau offered telegraph customers the option to register unique code names for their telegraph addresses customers were charged 2 50 per year per code by 1934 28 000 codes had been registered 8 page needed telegram services still operate in much of the world however e mail and text messaging have rendered telegrams obsolete in many countries and the number of telegrams sent annually has been declining rapidly since the 1980s 9 page needed where telegram services still exist the transmission method between offices is no longer by telegraph but by telex or ip link 10 length and style edit as telegrams have been traditionally charged by the word messages were often abbreviated to pack information into the smallest possible number of words in what came to be called telegram style the average length of a telegram in the 1900s in the us was 11 93 words more than half of the messages were 10 words or fewer 11 according to another study the mean length of the telegrams sent in the uk before 1950 was 14 6 words or 78 8 characters 12 for german telegrams the mean length is 11 5 words or 72 4 characters 12 at the end of the 19th century the average length of a german telegram was calculated as 14 2 words 12 derived uses edit a diplomatic telegram is a confidential communication between a diplomatic mission and the foreign ministry of its parent country 13 2 these continue to be called telegrams or cables regardless of the method used for transmission see also edit familygram personal message sent to submariners radiogram formal written message transmitted by radio singing telegram message delivered in song death notification telegram delivery of news of a death pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets telegram of condolence expression of sympathy pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets datagram basic data transfer unit associated with a packet switched network instagram social media platform owned by meta telegram org cross platform instant messaging service pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets references edit cablegram definition of cablegram by merriam webster merriam webster com 27 july 2023 1 2 definition of cable the macquarie dictionary 3rd ed australia macquarie library 1997 isbn 978 0 949757 89 0 n 4 a telegram sent abroad especially by submarine cable v 9 to send a message by submarine cable phillips 2000 p 276 smith 2015 p 433 downey 2002 p 7 kieve 1973 p 253 1 2 phillips 2000 p 274 gleick 2011 sfn error no target citerefgleick2011 help standage 2007 telegram not dead stop ars technica 19 june 2013 retrieved 14 may 2019 hochfelder 2012 p 79 1 2 3 frehner 2008 pp 187 191 1 796 memos from us embassy in manila in wikileaks cablegate abs cbn corporation 29 november 2010 archived from the original on 27 september 2012 retrieved 29 november 2010 sources edit downey gregory j 2002 telegraph messenger boys labor technology and geography 1850 1950 new york and london routledge frehner carmen 2008 email sms mms the linguistic creativity of asynchronous discourse in the new media age bern peter lang ag isbn 978 303911451 1 james gleick 2011 the information a history a theory a flood books on tape isbn 978 0 307 91498 9 oclc 689998325 retrieved 2021 04 12 hochfelder david 2012 the telegraph in america 1832 1920 the johns hopkins university press isbn 978 1 42140747 0 kieve jeffrey l 1973 the electric telegraph a social and economic history david and charles isbn 0 7153 5883 9 oclc 655205099 phillips ronnie j june 2000 digital technology and institutional change from the gilded age to modern times the impact of the telegraph and the internet journal of economic issues 34 2 267 89 archived from the original on 8 august 2020 smith richard e 2015 elementary information security jones bartlett publishers isbn 1284055949 standage tom 2007 afterword the victorian internet walker co isbn 978 0 802 71879 2 retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title telegram oldid 1356370606 categories telegrams telegraphy telecommunications types of mail written communication documents hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata articles containing ancient greek to 1453 language text harv and sfn no target errors wikipedia articles needing page number citations from february 2026 pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via module annotated link this page was last edited on 27 may 2026 at 10 14 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc a non profit organization privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia legal safety contacts code of conduct developers statistics cookie statement mobile view search search toggle the table of contents telegram 35 languages add topic