USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A brief historical overview: The printing press was the big innovation in communications until the telegraph was developed. Printing remained the key format for mass messages for years afterward, but the telegraph allowed instant communication over vast distances for the first time in human history.

Detailed explanation-2: -The electric telegraph transformed how wars were fought, how money was sent and how newspapers conducted business. Rather than taking weeks to be delivered by horse-and-carriage mail carts, pieces of news could be exchanged between telegraph stations almost instantly.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is most associated with sending electrical current pulses along a wire with Morse code encoding. The telegraph is the forerunner of all communication systems today, and many of the principles developed for the telegraph are still in use in modern communication and computer networks.

Detailed explanation-4: -Inventor Samuel Morse developed the telegraph system. Morse’s system sent out a signal in a series of dots and dashes, each combination representing one letter of the alphabet (“Morse code”).