Link: https://www.britannica.com/technology/telegraph
Description: WEBMar 29, 2024 · Telegraph, any device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance. The term most often refers to the electric telegraph, which was developed in the mid-19th century and for more than 100 years was the principal means of transmitting printed information.
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Link: https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph
Description: WEBNov 9, 2009 · Updated: August 12, 2022 | Original: November 9, 2009. copy page link. Print Page. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the...
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Link: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-F-B-Morse
Description: WEBMar 29, 2024 · Samuel F.B. Morse, American painter, philanthropist, and inventor who developed an electric telegraph (1832–35). In 1838 he and his friend Alfred Vail developed the system of dots and dashes later known as the Morse Code. In 1844 he sent the first message over the first telegraph line in the United States.
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_telegraph
Description: WEBThe first working telegraph was built by the English inventor Francis Ronalds in 1816 and used static electricity. At the family home on Hammersmith Mall , he set up a complete subterranean system in a 175-yard (160 m) long trench as well as an eight-mile (13 km) long overhead telegraph.
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Link: https://www.loc.gov/collections/samuel-morse-papers/articles-and-essays/invention-of-the-telegraph/
Description: WEBInvention of the Telegraph. Long before Samuel F. B. Morse electrically transmitted his famous message "What hath God wrought?" from Washington to Baltimore on May 24, 1844, there were signaling systems that enabled people to communicate over distances.
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Link: https://www.worldhistory.org/Electrical_Telegraph/
Description: WEBMar 24, 2023 · In 1850, the Scotsman Alexander Bain (1810-1877) invented a telegraph machine that could send and receive messages using perforated strips of paper. This machine, known as the chemical telegraph, read the holes in the chemically-treated paper and made a corresponding electrical impulse.
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Link: https://www.fi.edu/en/blog/origins-telegraph
Description: WEBJun 30, 2023 · While the idea for a machine dates back to the 1700s, it wasn’t until the 19 th century that the telegraph – a machine that transmits text across distance – was developed. While many inventors came up with different versions, the man who truly brought the telegraph to the world is Samuel Morse.
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Link: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/morse-demonstrates-telegraph
Description: WEBNov 24, 2009 · 1838. Samuel Morse unveils the telegraph, revolutionizing communication. This Day In History: 01/06/1838 - Morse Demonstrates Telegraph. On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse’s telegraph system...
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Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-the-telegraph-went-from-semaphore-to-communication-game-changer-1403433/
Description: WEBJimmy Stamp. October 11, 2013. The telegraph key used to send the famous message “What Hath God Wroght” over the prototype telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C. in 1844...
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Link: https://www.thoughtco.com/communication-revolution-telegraph-1991939
Description: WEBApr 2, 2019 · Ezra Cornell built more telegraph lines across the United States, connecting city with city, and Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail improved the hardware and perfected the code. Inventor, Samuel Morse lived to see his telegraph span the continent, and link communications between Europe and North America.
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