How Did Samuel Morse Invent The Telegraph System?
Samuel Morse, American born painter and inventor of the 19th century. Studying philosophy and mathematics at Yale he soon found his passion to the arts and travelled to England in 1811 to study painting. Returning back to the United States he was commissioned to do portraits of former President John Adams and James Monroe among other wealthy merchants in Charleston, South Carolina. Through his successful paintings of persons and his allegorical works for Congress he was offered a job at painting Marquis de Lafayette, renowned French nobleman who was inspired by the idea of liberty and the Declaration of Independence.
While working on this portrait news was delivered that his wife was nearing death with an illness. Upon receiving the letter …show more content…
Yes, Samuel Morse did invent the single-wire telegraph system but he did not invent the telegraph system. That would and should be credited to English scientists William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. In the 1830’s Cooke and Wheatstone devised a telegraph system consisting on multiple magnetized needles that point around a panel of letters and numbers using an electrical current. This system was used for railroad signaling in Britain. So technically they invented the telegraph system first and should be credited but their names are ones that are forgotten in the every unfolding story of …show more content…
However Morse was not working alone in his ventures. His colleagues Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail worked hard and arduously to “produce a single-circuit telegraph that worked by pushing the operator key down to complete the electric circuit of the battery. This action sent an electric signal across a wire to a receiver on the other end.” This simple system only required a key, a battery, a wire, and a line of poles between telegraph stations for the wire and receiver. Very simple yet very effective system. Being credited with the invention of the telegraph is a wrongdoing and does not do justice to those who deserve it.
However being credited with the success of the telegraph is very much on Morse’s shoulders. He personally went to Congress and demonstrated to them the power and efficiency of the telegraph. Within years over 20,000 miles of telegraph wires were in the United States alone. By 1866, there was a transatlantic cable that had been laid from the United States to
While working on this portrait news was delivered that his wife was nearing death with an illness. Upon receiving the letter …show more content…
Yes, Samuel Morse did invent the single-wire telegraph system but he did not invent the telegraph system. That would and should be credited to English scientists William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. In the 1830’s Cooke and Wheatstone devised a telegraph system consisting on multiple magnetized needles that point around a panel of letters and numbers using an electrical current. This system was used for railroad signaling in Britain. So technically they invented the telegraph system first and should be credited but their names are ones that are forgotten in the every unfolding story of …show more content…
However Morse was not working alone in his ventures. His colleagues Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail worked hard and arduously to “produce a single-circuit telegraph that worked by pushing the operator key down to complete the electric circuit of the battery. This action sent an electric signal across a wire to a receiver on the other end.” This simple system only required a key, a battery, a wire, and a line of poles between telegraph stations for the wire and receiver. Very simple yet very effective system. Being credited with the invention of the telegraph is a wrongdoing and does not do justice to those who deserve it.
However being credited with the success of the telegraph is very much on Morse’s shoulders. He personally went to Congress and demonstrated to them the power and efficiency of the telegraph. Within years over 20,000 miles of telegraph wires were in the United States alone. By 1866, there was a transatlantic cable that had been laid from the United States to