THE TELEGRAPH

Sarah Dusza and Emilee Haley

Early Life
April 27, 1791- April 2, 1872
Born in Charleston Massachusetts to Anne and Jedidiah Morse, a
distinguished geographer and Congregational clergyman
Morse was an indifferent, eccentric student at Phillips Academy in
Andover and Yale University. He was interested in little besides painting
portraits and later made a living as a painter
Graduated from Yale in 1810 and left to studied in England a few times
before the Revolutionary War
1832, while returning by ship from studying art in Europe, Morse
conceived the idea of an electric telegraph as the result of hearing a
conversation about the newly discovered electromagnet

Legacy
He is best remembered for his
invention of the single-wire telegraph
and for co-inventing Morse code

PIRATES: In school Morse was always

fascinated by electricity but it was not until the
Revolutionary War that Morse was actually
motivated to invent the telegraph

The telegraph transmits electrical signals over a wire laid between

stations. This revolutionized long-distance communication

Invention Background
In the early 19th century
after two breakthrough
discoveries in the electrical
field helped pave the way
to the invention of the
electric telegraph. These
two discovers were the
invention of the battery by
Volta and the connection
between electricity and
magnetism made by
Oersted.

The Invention
With this new and
upcoming field of science it
brought in a lot of new
inventions and experiments.
One of these new
inventions was the telegraph
credited to mostly Samuel
Morse but other scientist
helped make it possible. The
telegraph revolutionized
communication by electrical
signal over wires.

Morse Code

Morse also created the

Morse Code, which was a
code used to transmit
messages through the
telegraph using dots and
dashes representing letters.

Influence
In 1844 the first telegraph
was sent and by 1866
telegraphs were widely used
all across the Atlantic Ocean.
The telegraph declined being
replaced by telephones and
fax machines. This
revolutionary invention
paved the way for long
distance communication and
without it you wouldn't have
your cell phones now.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF
PIRATES
His discovery soon changed the way the messages are sent and
received in entire world, and even today Morse code is still in
use in various areas of radio communications