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    Well that's what people had to do before the Telegraph. Some information is Samuel Morse invented the Telegraph. Also Abraham Lincoln was the first president to use the telegraph. The invention of the Telegraph had a significant impact on american by making different ways to communicate, communicating with other Nations , Can make communication in the civil war easier. The inventor Samuel Morse is the inventor and he made the first working well telegraph. It might have done sooner but he did not

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    electric telegraph is a now outdated communication system that was used to transmit electric signals over wires from location to location that translated into a message by people at stations. The non-electric telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe in 1794. This system was visual and used a semaphore, an alphabet based on flag language, and depended on a line of sight for communication. This “optical telegraph” was replaced by the electric telegraph, eventually. In 1809, a crude telegraph was

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    communication and the advancement of long distance communication, Morse code and the telegraph also aided in the Industrial Revolution. II. Morse code is a system comprised of

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    The Telegraph System: Enhancing Communication Technology in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a novel consisting of various means of how communication is conveyed between the characters in the novel. From diary and journal entries, letters, memorandums, sounds from the phonograph, telegrams, and articles from various newspapers, all of these modes of communication help tell a narrative story about the importance of high power technology that is invented during the nineteenth century

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    The use of the telegraph was increased when Morse and his team received funding from the US government to send a message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland. History.com states that: In 1843, Morse and Vail received funding from the U.S. Congress to set up and test their telegraph system between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. On May 24, 1844, Morse sent Vail the historic first message: “What hath God wrought!” The telegraph system subsequently spread across America and the world

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    The telegraph was the first form of communications and rise of modern technological networks. This new network provided faster connections between people, places, markets, armies, and government. Telegraphs carried very important time sensitive news. For the first time man could communicate with another man from a great distance changing everything from how we saw communication. The rises of new technological networks were filling America during the mid 1800s to mid 1900 's. The idea of communicating

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    Introduction The 19th century developments of firstly the telegraph, and later the telephone, opened a gateway to a new, closer, more interdependent world. For a country as large as the United States, with a population now scattered from east to west, the implications were tremendous. The infamous tyranny of time and distance had been conquered. Widespread acceptance and appreciation, however, were not immediate. Both inventions met with initial scepticism, ridicule, and even elements of fear.

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    until the establishment and the use of telegraphy. Samuel Morse invented the telegraph in the 1830s and it had a huge impact on domestic politics and foreign policy. Now there was another way people could communicate instead of physically carrying letters or even sending messages through word of mouth. The telegraph also made messages much easier to transmit and receive over long distances internationally. The telegraph affected domestic politics and foreign policy in a revolutionary manner in which

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    Economic Discussion Prior to the electric telegraph, a long-distant message might be received through one of the following: fires, beacons, pigeon posts, or semaphores. At this point, the latest semaphore was recorded sending a message from Paris to Liles in under thirty two minutes. Before the telegraph, America used the Pony Express which delivered mail by horse. A message would be delivered by a series of men over a period of time before the message was received. This invaded privacy; also,

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    The Telegraph The idea behind the telegraph was to send electric signals across wires. This originated in the early 1700s and France was the first country to have a rough system by 1798. Eventually following was a system which used Morse code. Professor Samuel Morse had successfully secured funding and in 1843 a telegraph system was produced from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. The success of the system was seen and by 1861 the first transcontinental telegraph line was built. The telegraph was a very

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