1980 - for the first time in the history of Western Union revenues from money transfers exceeded the income from the telegraph service. By 1861 Western Union telegraph lines entangled the whole America. It's time to explore Europe. The Western Union Company uses the most up to date technologies and its unique worldwide computer network that allows to carry out quick money transfers payments in more than 190 countries around the world. In the 1910-1920 years. Western Union is actively engaged in researching, innovating in the field of data transmission. In October 1871 the company Western Union began to provide money transfer services, drawing on its own extensive telegraph network.