USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The electric telegraph transformed how wars were fought, how money was sent and how newspapers conducted business.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -What did Samuel F.B. Morse invent? Samuel F.B. Morse developed an electric telegraph (1832–35) and then invented, with his friend Alfred Vail, the Morse Code (1838). The latter is a system for representing letters of the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks by arranging dots, dashes, and spaces.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first working telegraph was built by the English inventor Francis Ronalds in 1816 and used static electricity.

Detailed explanation-5: -This system was further improved by the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who patented a quadraplex telegraph system in 1874 that permitted the simultaneous transmission of two signals in each direction on a single line. A major new concept was introduced in 1871 by Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot in France.