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Why Did Samuel Morse's Use Of Electronic Telegraphs
In 1832, Samuel Morse returned to the United States after completing his studies from Europe. Morse formulated the idea of a single-wire electric telegraph. He developed a code that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet. The codes helped in the transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. The electric telegraph was based on the principle of sending electric current through a wire. A sender will send the signal in the form of an electric current. The receiver records the message and decode the current to determine the content of the message.

In 1843, Morse along with Vail set up their experimental telegraph system between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. On May 24, 1844, Morse sent the

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