Leaving the idea of expansion into Europe, Western Union took up the expansion of services in the U.S. market. Another invention of Western Union - time synchronization. In 1877, starting from September, New York City residents began to have the opportunity to check the time on clock with the "time ball", located on the roof of constructed in the same year a new corporate headquarters - Western Union Building. You do not need to open a bank account, so you can send or receive money in any of the 170 000 service points of Western Union around the world. Western Union made so that the time in all of American civil services was the same.