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How Did The First Telegraph Revolutionized Long Distance Communication

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Cellphones are a way communicating with someone that is not near you. Cellphone have been around for about for 40 years, and before cellphone there was the telephones. Telephones have been around for more than 100 years. Telephones was usually kept in the house and shared with the members in your family. Today everyone has their own cell phone that can fit in their pockets or purse, so it can be taken anywhere you go. Cell phones counties to evolve as technology is advancing. May 24, 1844, Samuel F.B Morse sent the first telegraphic message. The first telegraph message was sent from Washington, D.C to Baltimore, Maryland. By 1866 the telegraph line was across the Atlantic Ocean sending messages for the U.S to Europe. The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication, it worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations (1). Samuel Morse also developed a code called Morse code, Morse code transmitted complex messages across the telegraph line. …show more content…

Bell invented the telephone while trying to improve the telegraph to send multiple messages at once instead of one message. March 10, 1876, Bell for the first time used his device and spoke to one of his workers. The message was “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” In doing so, Bell launched the telephone era with the first bi-directional electronic transmission of the spoken word (2). After Alexander Graham Bell creating the telephone, it was stepping stone for a telephones and cellphones today. Alexander Graham Bell also invented the candlestick phone after his first invention. The candlestick telephone was invented in the 1890s. The candlestick continued to evolve and was popular until the

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