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    6 Jan - Samuel Morse successfully tests the electric telegraph

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    Post by Kitkat Mon 06 Jan 2020, 11:46

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    Samuel Morse Successfully Tests the Electrical Telegraph

    6 Jan - Samuel Morse successfully tests the electric telegraph 275px-Telegraf

    In 1832, Morse, an American painter-turned-inventor, began working on a system for transmitting messages as electrical pulses across a wire.  Five years later, he was granted a patent for his electromagnetic telegraph, and he successfully tested the device a year after that.  Public use of Morse's telegraph system, as well as the code he developed to represent letters and numbers as electrial pulses, began in 1844 and lasted over 100 years.
    What was the first message sent on the public system?  More...



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