In six pages this paper discusses how society was affected by the invention of the telegraph machine. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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set the precedence for all other technological communication devices that ultimately followed. The need for communication was never so great as it was during the Civil War, when the ability
for soldiers to communicate was weak at best. From that point forward, the aspect of communication progressed like never before, with Samuel F. B. Morse responsible for the initial
telegraph sending device and its Morse Code in 1837; the telegraph soon became an instrument of international communication, easing transmissions across the United States and beyond the waterways. Alexander
Graham Bells historic invention in 1876 was spawned directly from the telegraphs invention, which ultimately established permanent global communication by way of tremendous technological advancement. Morses invention first originated in
1832, where the innovator attempted to devise an electromagnetic telegraph that ultimately took three years to bring to an experimental stage. Its impracticality was quite apparent and kept him
reworking the system until 1844, when he successfully established a communications line between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The patent was granted for his invention in 1849, five years after
Morse made application for "a method for marking dots and dashes on strips of paper" (Samuel F. B. Morse). Clearly, Morse could have had no idea the significant impact
his communications device would one day have upon the entire global community. "Morses invention transformed communications almost overnight. Within ten years after the first telegraph line opened, 23,000
miles of wire crisscrossed the country. The development of the telegraph had a significant impact on the development of the West, made railroad travel safer, and allowed businessmen to
conduct their operations more quickly and profitably. Very few inventions have had such an immediate and long-lasting impact" (Samuel F. B. Morse). The fundamental operation of the telegraph