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 ...

In 1859, the US telegraph system was about 20 years old, and Cyrus Field had just built his transatlantic cable from Newfoundland to Ireland, ...

On the evening of Aug. 28, 1859, a telegraph in New York took on a life of its own. As its operator J. C. Crosson fought to transmit messages, the current fluctuated wildly. The battery powering ...

In 1859, all did was to make for some very strange telegraph conversations. In early September of 1859, the telegraph was still a relatively new invention, but it was such a useful invention that ...

A massive solar flare, followed by a series of coronal mass ejections, caused the Carrington Event, which happened on September 1, 1859. The event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused auroras ...

But none of those storms come close to the scale of the 1859 monster, known as the Carrington Event. If a Carrington Event happened today, the world likely would have to deal with the simultaneous ...

Forecasters of space weather keep an eye on the sun to stay ahead of eruptions of solar material that have the ability to shut down power grids on Earth, disrupt aircraft routes, global communications ...