Telegraph



Telegraph

Inventors started getting the idea of sending messages over wires in the early 1700s. Samuel Morse perfected the telegraph by making up the Morse code which made electrical impules that stood for the letters of the alpahabet. The telegraph marked the breaking point for major transformations in the United States.

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