<P> Prior to the electrical telegraph, ancient civilizations, such as Greece, Egypt, and China, transmitted long - distance information using drumbeats, flame beacons, or light flashes with a heliograph . Later, nearly all information was limited to traveling at the speed of a human or animal . The telegraph freed communication from the time constraints of postage and revolutionized the global economy and society . By the end of the 19th century, the telegraph was becoming an increasingly common medium of communication for ordinary people . The telegraph isolated the message (information) from the physical movement of objects or the process . </P> <P> Telegraphy facilitated the growth of organizations "in the railroads, consolidated financial and commodity markets, and reduced information costs within and between firms". This immense growth in the business sectors influenced society to embrace the use of telegrams . </P> <P> Worldwide telegraphy changed the gathering of information for news reporting . Messages and information would now travel far and wide, and the telegraph demanded a language "stripped of the local, the regional; and colloquial", to better facilitate a worldwide media language . Media language had to be standardized, which led to the gradual disappearance of different forms of speech and styles of journalism and storytelling . </P> <P> Numerous newspapers and news outlets in various countries, such as The Daily Telegraph in Britain, The Telegraph in India, De Telegraaf in the Netherlands, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in the US, were given names which include the word "telegraph" due to their having received news by means of electric telegraphy . Some of these names are retained even though more sophisticated means are now used . A newspaper in Indian state of Tamil Nadu is named as Dhina Thanthi which means daily telegraph . </P>

Describe the difference between a telegraph and a telephone