Travis Sells
O’Brien 1/Swallie 6
Industrial Revolution Paper
7 December 2017
The Telegraph
Have you ever used emojis on your iPhone and thought “wow, this is so innovative!”? Well, before there were emojis we used a thing called Morse Code and it was used on a machine called the telegraph. The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse in the 1800s and the machine revolutionized long distance communication. In case you don’t know who he is I’ll tell you. “Samuel Morse was the first child of clergymen Jedidiah and Elizabeth Finley Morse”, according to Biography.com, and they would later have five other children. Samuel graduated from Yale in 1810, because his father and mother were very committed to his education. Believe it or not Samuel’s first dream was to be an artist, not and inventor. His father didn’t want him to become a painter, he wanted Samuel to have a different job. Morse was prompted to invent the telegraph after his wife died giving birth to their third child while he was away on a painting commission. When he arrived she was already buried, this event led him to invent …show more content…
The telegraph itself “Worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire between stations” (morse code and the telegraph), according to history.com. There are also four main types of telegraph systems such as electrical, Morse, wireless, and optical (“History of”). These machines worked in a different ways but they all accomplished sending a message. The Morse and electrical telegraph, which morse had helped develop, worked by sending electrical signals over a wire between stations. In addition, the wireless telegraph worked by sending messages using radio waves and the optical telegraph worked by using towers with two arms mounted on top of a tower, each arm had 7 positions it could me moved into and each of these arrangements corresponded to a letter, number, word, or part of a sentence
O’Brien 1/Swallie 6
Industrial Revolution Paper
7 December 2017
The Telegraph
Have you ever used emojis on your iPhone and thought “wow, this is so innovative!”? Well, before there were emojis we used a thing called Morse Code and it was used on a machine called the telegraph. The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse in the 1800s and the machine revolutionized long distance communication. In case you don’t know who he is I’ll tell you. “Samuel Morse was the first child of clergymen Jedidiah and Elizabeth Finley Morse”, according to Biography.com, and they would later have five other children. Samuel graduated from Yale in 1810, because his father and mother were very committed to his education. Believe it or not Samuel’s first dream was to be an artist, not and inventor. His father didn’t want him to become a painter, he wanted Samuel to have a different job. Morse was prompted to invent the telegraph after his wife died giving birth to their third child while he was away on a painting commission. When he arrived she was already buried, this event led him to invent …show more content…
The telegraph itself “Worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire between stations” (morse code and the telegraph), according to history.com. There are also four main types of telegraph systems such as electrical, Morse, wireless, and optical (“History of”). These machines worked in a different ways but they all accomplished sending a message. The Morse and electrical telegraph, which morse had helped develop, worked by sending electrical signals over a wire between stations. In addition, the wireless telegraph worked by sending messages using radio waves and the optical telegraph worked by using towers with two arms mounted on top of a tower, each arm had 7 positions it could me moved into and each of these arrangements corresponded to a letter, number, word, or part of a sentence