How Did The Telegraph Affect Society

In the 18 to 19 centuries, a spark of events occurred called the Industrial Revolution, in which people started to stop using tools and use machines in order to expand the current country’s wealth by using their resources. Many inventions and ideas were created, but in order to experiment the wealthy people at the time bought up all the major farm lands. By doing this, the experiments were an immediate success while many farmers were forced to move to the cities and work in factories in order to move on in life. But this event caused major consequences, in which they were either beneficial through cheaper resources, communication, or harmful effects such as pollution, unsanitary living conditions, and child labor. A lot of these effects were
Other industries also needed more workers due to the growing demand of supplies needed for railroads, which produced even more jobs (DOC 8). In 1837, Samuel Morse invented an invention for communication in 1837. Through an electrical system of networks, the telegraph could transmit messages from one location to another over long distances. The receiver of a telegraph message would interpret the markings produced by the machine, which were encrypted in Morse code.The Telegraph changed people by efficiently sending messages across a nation while making communication cheaper, faster and more safer. The telegraph helped unified the people as a nation because they could easily and quickly communicate(DOC 9) During in the Industrial Revolution, an extreme amount of harmful effects was composed. These affected people in some of the most inhumane ways possible and these effects have a lasting impact on today's society. At the time, one of the most common things that occurred, specifically in coal mines and factories, was child labor! Children were employed in order to help the family income; starting work as early as they can walk to all the way to being an adult of 18 years of