Telegraphy

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.

The Application of New Technologies to Improve Business Communications Technological advancements have the capacity to affect every aspect of the business world. With an exponentially growing communications sector, new communication technologies are constantly providing ways to improve and optimize business correspondence. The business world clearly values tradition; over time, most core business principles and methodology have remained the same. Business owners are sometimes weary of experimenting

Steamboat and Telegraph The following presentation encompases two major historical milestones in the development of american engineering and ingenuity. The first being the development of the steam engine and the second the invention of the telegraph. It's the 1800s and industrialization is thriving throughout America. People are moving away from an agricultural way of life, moving into cities, developing arts and trades and trying to expand their boundaries of who, where and how they can trade marketable

With just a few touches of a button the telegraph by Samuel Morse was the first of its era to allow mass communication, quickly, and long distant. Changing the way the world communicated and conducting business, the invention of the telegraph became a significant part of American history. Prior to the invention of the telegraph, people would write letters and rely on messengers to deliver their letters. Often letters would be sent via boats across the ocean taking days to receive. Samuel Morse was

Samuel Morse Wires Up the Nation Samuel Finley Breese Morse was a keen inventor and imaginative artist. He painted many great paintings and also invented a great invention. Even though he was not the best student in his early years, he grew up to be a keen, God loving man. His discoveries and art not only changed America, but it also changed the entire world. Samuel Morse’s contraption enabled Americans to communicate with each other much more conveniently. He saw how difficult it was to communicate

Throughout the years, types of media have gradually changed. One of the most recent changes taking place in the second half of the twentieth century. In his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman talks about the change from the age of typography to the age of visual media and how it has greatly impacted the American culture. Postman points out several reasons to support his opinion that the transition has indeed proven to have a negative effect on the American people. How did, what was once

The 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

What became of our forces which held the bridge till twenty minutes ago…? The President of the United States telegraphed a colonel in the field during the Civil War Battle of Second Manassas (Bull Run) in 1862. Abraham Lincoln was using the new medium of electronic communications in an unprecedented manner to revolutionize the nature of national leadership. When Lincoln arrived for his inauguration in 1861 there was not even a telegraph line to the War Department, much less the White House. Storm

Today, social media is one of the central outlets that people use to communicate and gather information. On social media, individuals “like,” “pin,” “retweet,” and more to express their satisfaction or disapproval regarding the global happenings and their personal worlds. On Twitter, sub-tweeting is a form of gossip and has caused much discord between individuals. At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, another form of technology, telegramming, functioned as a form of

Breaking the Code Dots and dashes with dashes and dots. It’s Morse Code; the seemingly basic system of communication which initiated a monumental trend in global society. Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail, and Leonard Gale, the creators of the code, began cooperating on the project in 1837 (Bellizzi 2). Morse had a background as a professional artist and was a professor of art and design in Massachusetts. His motivation to create this amended form of correspondence sparked in 1832 on a return voyage from