The First telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse and other inventors in the 1830s and 1840s the telegraph changed long-distance communication forever. It worked by broadcasting electrical signals over a wire put down between stations. Samuel Morse developed a code called Morse code that had a set of dashes and dots to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple version of complex messages across lines of telegraphs. Morse sent his first telegraph message in 1844, to Baltimore, Maryland from Washington. By 1866, a telegraph line was put across the Atlantic Ocean from the U.S. to Europe. The telegraph had fallen out of widespread use by the start of the 21st century, replaced by the fax machine, internet, and the telephone,
