Invention of the Telegraph
The telegraph is one of the inventions that started long distance communication. To begin with, Samuel Morse came up with the marvelous idea of this invention. However, he did have a competitor by the name of Charles Wheatstone. The original telegraph was developed in the 1830s. It was tested and updated through a number of years from when it was invented. It’s actually quite impressive how this whole system was developed. According to ‘Morse Code and the Telegraph’, in History.com, Samuel Morse developed the telegraph from the 1830s to the 1840s. Since Morse had a competitor, Charles Wheatstone, they both had different telegraphs. Interesting fact from Greg Timmons, Morse was an artist, his career was art. Wheatstone, on the other hand, was a Professor of Experimental Philosophy. “Morse produced a single-circuit telegraph that worked by pushing the operator key down to complete the electric circuit of the battery,” (History). This action of pushing the operator key down sent electric signals across a wire to a receiver on the other end. Every system needed a key, a battery, wire and a line of poles between stations for the receiver. Charles Wheatstone and his peer developed a telegraph system with “five magnetic needles that could be pointed around a panel of letters and numbers by using an electric current,” …show more content…
Congress by 1838. “He was not the first to think of the idea – 62 people had claimed to invent the first electrical telegraph by 1838 – but Morse beat everyone else to by being the first to get political backing for his telegraph and a business model for making it work,” (Imagining the Internet). Using financial support from the Congress, Morse built a system from Washington D.C. to Baltimore in 1843. On May 24, 1844, Morse sent the first message, “What hath God wrought?” The telegraph proved itself that it could alter the way of communicating over long
The telegraph is one of the inventions that started long distance communication. To begin with, Samuel Morse came up with the marvelous idea of this invention. However, he did have a competitor by the name of Charles Wheatstone. The original telegraph was developed in the 1830s. It was tested and updated through a number of years from when it was invented. It’s actually quite impressive how this whole system was developed. According to ‘Morse Code and the Telegraph’, in History.com, Samuel Morse developed the telegraph from the 1830s to the 1840s. Since Morse had a competitor, Charles Wheatstone, they both had different telegraphs. Interesting fact from Greg Timmons, Morse was an artist, his career was art. Wheatstone, on the other hand, was a Professor of Experimental Philosophy. “Morse produced a single-circuit telegraph that worked by pushing the operator key down to complete the electric circuit of the battery,” (History). This action of pushing the operator key down sent electric signals across a wire to a receiver on the other end. Every system needed a key, a battery, wire and a line of poles between stations for the receiver. Charles Wheatstone and his peer developed a telegraph system with “five magnetic needles that could be pointed around a panel of letters and numbers by using an electric current,” …show more content…
Congress by 1838. “He was not the first to think of the idea – 62 people had claimed to invent the first electrical telegraph by 1838 – but Morse beat everyone else to by being the first to get political backing for his telegraph and a business model for making it work,” (Imagining the Internet). Using financial support from the Congress, Morse built a system from Washington D.C. to Baltimore in 1843. On May 24, 1844, Morse sent the first message, “What hath God wrought?” The telegraph proved itself that it could alter the way of communicating over long