By David Forest, editor, Strategic Trader Abraham Lincoln was a visionary. He’s still the only American president with a patent. And in 1861, he used a newfound technology to change the world. About 150 years before cellphones went mainstream, Lincoln recognized the power of near-instant communication. Why? Because when the Civil War broke out, the Confederates seized the telegraph lines surrounding Washington, D.C. Lincoln and Secretary of War Simon Cameron knew that was a problem. They saw how important communication would be to winning the war. And although Samuel Morse pioneered the telegraph system in the U.S. in 1844, it wasn’t until Lincoln used it to help win the Civil War that it caught on… Before the Civil War, U.S. government employees had to wait in line to send a telegram like everyone else. If they wanted to send a message, they went to the Washington, D.C. central telegraph office. It was inefficient. So when the war broke out, Lincoln asked Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, for help. Scott brought in his superintendent, Andrew Carnegie, to assist. That led to the creation of the U.S. Military Telegraph Corps. Its job was to lay more than 15,000 miles of telegraph wire across battlefields.  U.S. Military Telegraph battery wagon
It was dangerous work. The Union Army fought and won on the front lines, but communication played a key role in its victory. Without the telegraph, things may have turned out differently. None of this was possible without the communications infrastructure built by the U.S. Military Telegraph Corps. | Recommended Link | | This one stock could be the game changer you're looking for
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Small cells are necessary in densely packed areas. They give wireless providers the ability to boost wireless speeds. Demanding more data from a single network naturally slows its speed. Small cells help partially solve that problem. And S&P Global Markets expects we’ll need 800,000 new small cells by 2026. According to Allied Market Research, 5G infrastructure spending is set to grow at an annual compound rate of 67.1%, reaching $47.8 billion by 2027. That’s why we’re looking to companies working behind the scenes on this type of infrastructure – they’re literally powering the 5G network buildout. While major communications companies like Verizon and AT&T make all the headlines, it’s the names you don’t hear about that will have the greatest impact on 5G. Building out a new infrastructure is costly. Billions of dollars are up for grabs. And we don’t want to speculate on the 5G network with major service providers. That’s like trying to mine gold during a gold rush. Most people never find gold. It never works out how you hope. We’d do much better speculating in the “picks-and-shovels” of the network buildout. Because without the right equipment, we’ll never be able to reach the network’s potential. A good place to start is the VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH). It holds a handful of companies tied to the semiconductor sector, which is a key component of many 5G devices and the infrastructure behind them. They should offer some solid returns as the sector takes off. But if you’re looking for greater upside… the U.S. government just teamed up with tech companies to auction off its powerful 5G frequencies – once reserved for the Pentagon. Because 5G is no longer just a luxury. It’s a necessity. During the last auction, $4 billion changed hands. Investors in the right companies saw triple-digit windfalls. And the gains this time around could be even bigger… Keep walking the path, ![[signature]](https://files.caseyresearch.com/global/signatures/dforest-sig.png)
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