Communication Technology: The Impact of the Telegraph on Society

The telegraph quickly became popular between people that wanted to send messages over long distances easier and faster than ever before. The telegraph also improved ways of communicating across continents. The first telegraph line was laid across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866; later in 1940 40 lines were laid across the Atlantic Ocean. History.com also states that:

In the book, The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers, author Tom Standage discusses the highly anticipated discovery and advancement of the telegraph telegraphic communications. Mr. Standage is a well-known and reputable British deputy editor at The Economist who specializes in science and technology. The meticulous and informative selection about historical communication, The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage presents an ideal title, which reminds the people that today’s Internet is just an interpretation of what had already been discovered and that its controversies

The question asked by Louis Watts, “What other era can you think of in which people can reach out so easily to so many others with just the touch of a few buttons?” is what I will be writing about. When I think of this question, the invention of the telegraph in the 19th century by Samuel Morse came to mind and the importance of how it changed our ways of communicating long distance. My position on this topic will be how important the invention of the telegraph was in communicating across the world. It not only opened doors on communication but it also allowed people to wire money. This invention was a huge turning point for businesses. I will be using the argumentative element of argument for my paper. Using GALILEO’s academic journals and

The printing press effectsly affected European progress. Its prompt impact was that it spread data rapidly and precisely. This made a more extensive educated perusing open. Be that as it may, its significance lay not simply by they way it spread data and feelings, yet in addition in what sorts of data and assessments it was spreading. There were two fundamental bearings printing took, both of which were presumably absolutely unexpected by its makers.

Before the time of instant messaging and radios people used a telegraph to send messages across long distances. Samuel F.B. Morse an inventor and artist invented the telegraph and Morse code. His life can be divided up three parts, the boy, the artist and the inventor.

In the article Affects of Media on Society, it states “In the last 50 years the media influence has grown rapidly with the technology.” It started with all the ways information was relayed to us by mail, telegraph and new computer technology. We need to give it some credit because it has taken great steps in advancements in the medical field and other forms of technology. The internet has made many things in our life much simpler at work, at home and in education.

By the 1850s, predictions about the impact of the new medium began to abound. The telegraph would alter business and politics. It would make the world smaller erase national rivalries and contribute to the establishment of world peace. Now these claims were bold but in a since the telegraph had achieved the majority of these claimed. It did in fact erase national rivalries as countries joined forces to further develop the technology. Also, it stimulated the development of long range communication through radio

I also found “The Victorian Internet” concerning the telegraph to be very insightful. I did not realize how many people had worked on a solution over such wide timeframe. One thing kept coming to my mind as I read about Cooke and Morse is did their ego get in the way. Do you think they should have sought partners in physics earlier in the process? Do you think the fact that Cooke and Morse were hobbyists and lacked a solid scientific background was a potential cause for people to not listen or take them seriously?

A rise in literacy in the 1840s prompted a demand for newspapers and written news of other formats. For instance, on March 15th, 1848, revolutionaries in Pest, Hungary declared an end to censorship and marched to printing presses where they printed out leaflets listing Sándor Petőfi’s “National Song” and 12 points of demands. The Hungarian dispersed these leaflets, further invigorating their causes against the Hapsburg monarchy. By dispensing their 12-point constitution to the crowds, the Hungarian revolutionaries further catapulted their political demands, which spread to neighboring Vienna and encouraged the overthrow of Metternich. Additionally, the Telegraph System, a relatively new technology during the 1840s, made a contribution in the swift circulation of pivotal political news.

Although the telegraph was first in providing electronic communication in the 19th Century, 'radio' is considered the grandfather of modern day electronics which led to television and where we are today with the Internet, computers, and all types of audio and video devices. Keeping this in mind,

Recently an American team researching world history over the last centuries declared Johannes Gutenberg to be the “man of the millennium”. In their statement they insisted that with his invention of the movable letter press, Gutenberg had established a vital precondition for huge changes in socio-economic, political and cultural fields which followed in succeeding centuries.

The 20th century has witnessed dramatic developments in the history of media communications as well as human society. During the first half of the last century, electronic media such as the telegraph, radio and television to name a few were invented and became prevalent. Afterwards, the internet came into being and developed at an unprecedented rate to the point where it is now widely accepted that human history has entered into an information age. As claimed by a number of scholars, the appearance of new types of media can bring about dramatic influences on living conditions. Among them, Harold Innis, pioneer in this area of communication studies, is influential, firstly by employing two dimensions to media, namely time and space, and

How was the telegraph used? The telegraph was used to contact people it was faster than riding a horse that would take days just to tell people about news and what is happening where they living. When they were using the telegraph, they needed a name for the language they were sending it and they started calling it Morse code. The more letters you used you had to pay it.

Widespread acceptance and appreciation, however, were not immediate. Both inventions met with initial scepticism, ridicule, and even elements of fear. The wisdom of twenty-first century hindsight makes such reticence seem incredible and somewhat amusing, but the very magnitude of instantaneous communication was the source of anxiety in the first recipients as much as of excitement. In an era when

Edward Bellamy’s futuristic conception of commerce in the 21st century unintentionally created a surprisingly accurate representation of the emerging electronic economy. The use of computer technology and the internet is allowing the creation of greater