How did the telegraph impact society

What was the purpose of the telegraph
How did the telegraph improve industry
How does a telegraph work

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The Original Samuel Morse Telegraph

The telegraph is defined as any system that allows the transmission of encoded information by signal across a distance. The meaning of "telegraph" comes from Greek words: tele=far and graphein= write. While telegraph systems have used a variety of signaling methods and devices, the term is most often applied to the electrical telegraph development in the 19th century.

The earliest forms of telegraphy were probably smoke, fire or drum signals. In the late 18th century optical telegraphs were invented by Claude Chappe in France and George Murray in England – the semaphore, based on visible transmission encoded by different positions of pivoted arms located on high towers, but this slow and ineffective system couldn't work at night.

Rapid development of the electrical telegraph was based on Hans Christian Oersted’s discovery in 1819 that a wire carrying a current was able to deflect a magnetized compass needle. The Cooke and Wheatstone five needle telegraph of 1837 utilized this phenomenon. This apparatus, which is gener

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Samuel Morse Telegraph Patent

Description

A detailed blueprint of Samuel F.B. Morse's telegraph, showcasing various components and their arrangements, including a large coil and mechanical parts, was patented on April 11, 1846. The technical illustration provides a side and top view of the machine's intricate design. Specialized trained operators used the telegraph to transmit and receive text messages in Morse code in a telegraphy system from the late 1800's.

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Electrical telegraph

Early system for transmitting text over wires

Electrical telegraphy is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century. It was the first electrical telecommunications system and the most widely used of a number of early messaging systems called telegraphs, that were devised to send text messages more quickly than physically carrying them.^[1] Electrical telegraphy can be considered the first example of electrical engineering.^[3]

Text telegraphy consisted of two or more geographically separated stations, called telegraph offices. The offices were connected by wires, usually supported overhead on utility poles. Many electrical telegraph systems were invented that operated in different ways, but the ones that became widespread fit into two broad categories. First are the needle telegraphs, in which electric current sent down the telegraph line produces electromagnetic force to move a needle-shaped pointer into position over a printed list. Early needle telegraph models used multip