Communication

System-Telegraph
Jonathan Tyson - Engineering Concepts -
1st period – April 10th 2019
About the Telegraph
• The Electric Telegraph was produced and patented
by F.B Morse in 1837.
• Morse sent the first telegraph signal in 1844.
• The telegraph could send signals through an
electrical currents.
• Morse and Alfred Vail created a system that assigned
Letters and numbers to dashes(long marks) and
dots(short marks).

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Soundbite

• When caught on sound the telegraph sounds

like a series of short and long beeps.

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Social Change

• The Telegraph changed the way people communicated

and received information during that time period.

• Most people were eager for the telegraph because it

was a faster and easier way to send and receive
information.

• The telegraph also helped the military out because it

was able to send cryptic messages to troops and deliver
orders.

• Even banks used the telegraph to allow money to be

wired across great distances.

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Bibliography

• https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html

• https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph

• https://makecode.microbit.org/courses/csintro/radio/ac
tivity