The Telegraph
A easier and quicker way to communicate!!!!
THE FOUINDER:Claude and Ignace Chappe- Improved by: Samuel Morse
One of the most successful of the visual telegraphs was the semaphore developed in France by the Chappe brothers.In 1832 Samuel F.B. Morse, a professor at the University of the City of New York. Became interested in the possibility of electric telegraphy and made sketches of ideas for such a system. In 1835 he devised a system of dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers.
How does the invention work?
Telegraph, device or system that transmits information by coded signal over distance.
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Purpose of the telegraph.
The purpose of the telegraph was to send messages quicker and easier.
Occurance of the invention. And where it occured!!!
The system was completed and public use began on May 24, 1844, with the message of, “What hath God wrought!” this took place in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md.
The need for speed back in the 1800's.
The need for the invention was, that there would be a safer way to send a message an that there would a quicker way.
MORSE and the TELEGRAPH
So why is this invention/telegraph important to history?
This invention is very significant to our history, it is one of the first electric communicating devices. This invention is the building block of our era today. Without this invention our technology probably would not be as advance as it is. This contraption was our future and still builds on to many years yet to come.