By 1859, 125,000 miles of telegraph lines covered the surface of the Earth. Governing everything from supply chains to military decisions to familial correspondence, the telegraph system held ...

In 1859, the US telegraph system was about 20 years old, and Cyrus Field had just built his transatlantic cable from Newfoundland to Ireland, which would not succeed in transmitting messages until ...

1859: A magnetic explosion on the sun causes bright auroras on Earth and upends the the fledgling telegraph network. On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9 ...

On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30 a.m., the operators’ lines were overflowing with current, so they unplugged the batteries connected to their ...

Manhattanhenge is a reminder that a solar storm has the potential to devastate global infrastructure, and we would have no way to predict when it would happen.

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The Carrington Event of 1859 has become a kind of sun-powered bogeyman. It was a solar storm that, today, would disrupt nearly every society in the world.

The Carrington Event took place in September 1859 and is one of history's largest solar storms. Events like this can wreak havoc on our technological world.

In 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was studying the Sun when he witnessed the most intense geomagnetic storm recorded in history. The storm, triggered by a giant solar flare, sent brilliant ...

On Sept. 2, 1859, an incredible storm of charged particles sent by the sun slammed into Earth's atmosphere, overpowered it, and caused havoc on the ground. Telegraph wires, the high-tech stuff of ...