Equally important, is that technology helped create the telegraph, which played a major part in the civil war. At first many members of congress thought of the telegram as a joke that would be no help for the government, but one person that was interested in it himself was president Abraham Lincoln. In a time of need Lincoln was forced to use the telegraph because of the industrial revolution. The telegraph was not used that much until a telegraph office was coincidently built next to the white house. Using the telegraph he would give commands such as where to place solders, furthermore , he would get to experience what was going on during the war such as how were the men who were sent doing a gain insight on what the enemy could be doing. In order to communicate with anyone that was associate with American, Lincoln would communicate with them on the telegraph using Morse Code. Morse Code is a code which can be used to make words by using long or short signals using light or sound. The communication line for Morse Code was built between Washington and Baltimore (Wheller). However, most people did not feel comfortable with the idea of using Morse Code because the felt it had to do with evil. In the article it states, "After the Morse test line was finally built between Washington and Baltimore, some of the clergy at the terminus warned that it could only be Black Magic"(Wheller). This proves that many people believed that Morse Code had to do with evil because that type of technology had not been seen yet and it was very shocking for people back in the past to see something like that.
