The Telegraph

When the telephone did not exist, what device did people use for communications? The telegraph was the answer, made by Samuel F. B. Morse. An invention that could transmit an electric pulse across a cable to send messages. This invention was looked poorly upon at the beginning of its time. But one man had the guts to invest in Morse’s telegraph, and he soon became one of the reasons the telegraph was created. The telegraph caused the telephone to be invented. Morse had wanted to be able to “talk across continents.” The telegraph was not a small device such as a cellular phone. It was a device that was and emplacement, that was installed into its location, it was bulky and took up a lot of space. Morse slowly improved his model to be able to put it in ships, so that it did not require a direct transit cable to connect to the receiving end. Some thought Morse was crazy and wasting his money, yet he devoted his savings to create something that started the possible idea that we could talk to someone who was halfway around the world. The telegraph was a complex designed that did not even seem to be possible at the time of the industrial revolution. Unlike some inventors that required a break in the middle of the making of their invention, he stayed working on it because he was devoted to creating the transmitting device. Slowly Morse developed the thought of the telegraph and he began to manufacture what today is known as the telegraph and morse code. Ever since 1792, telegraphs have been around in Europe. These telegraphs were in the form of semaphore lines, or optical telegraphs. This sent a message to a distant observer through the line-of-sight, which was a simplified version of telegraph. This required both parties to be in visible sight of each other. In 1837, Samuel F. B. Morse, a famous artist turned inventor, had the idea of a telegraph sending telegrams. Telegrams are messages sent across an electric cable in morse code. This idea meant that your message