Samuel Morse

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Hello My Name Is Aaliyah Cox and I am Going To Be Talking About Morse Code & The Telegraph

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Hope you enjoy!

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Samuel Morse

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1. Was the first born son to Jedidah and Elisabeth Morse.

2. Graduated from Yale in 1810 and wanted to pursue a career in art but he's father wanted him to have a steady career.

3. He denied his father and pursued his artist career until the death of his wife Lucretia while she was giving birth to their the third child.

4. He soon began working on his inventions, he soon helped develop the telegraph and wrote Morse code.

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The Telegraph

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1. The telegraph was developed in the 1830s and 1840s, While Samuel Morse did help with inventing the telegraph he also invented Morse code.

2. The first telegraph message was sent in 1844, from Washington to Baltimore. Soon a telegraph line was hung across the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Electric Telegraph

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1. In the 1830s a British research team began working on an electric version of the telegraph and Morse heard of this while traveling back to america and began working on his own development.

2. Soon Morse, Gale, and Vail produced a single circuit telegraph.

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Morse Code

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1. to transmit messages across the telegraph lines Samuel Morse came up with Morse code which assigned dots and dashes to letters in the alphabet.

2. At first, the recovers had to wait for a piece of paper to transmit the messages but very quickly the receivers could hear the messages just by listing to the clicks. so, receivers started using receivers with more accurate beeping noises.

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The Fall Of The Telegraph

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1. By the end of the 19th century, the need for the telegraph quickly faded as new developments of the more reliable telephone, fax machine, and internet would soon overshadow the telegraph.

2. Still, The telegraph paved the way for communication and changed an entire industry.