In 1920, Western Union has implemented the world's first transmission of images over the ocean. 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. In 1914 Western Union engineers invented the first payment card - a prototype of the modern credit card. 1970 - a new service called The first offices of company were located in the Reynolds Arcade building in Rochester, New York. The sign above the main entrance to the building - Western Union made so that the time in all of American civil services was the same. Western Union for more than 130 years provides money transfer services to its customers.