THE TELEGRAPH

DEFINITION

• Telegraph: a device that could send information over wires across great distances

MORSE CODE

• The telegraph created a form of language communication called morse code
• Morse Code- different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet

THE BIG BREAK

• It took two years to comprehend how to connect the lines in two locations
• After a presidential candidate nomination was announced over telegraph businesses, the government, newspapers, and private citizens started using the telegraph

GROWTH

• The telegraph grew with the railroad system
• The wires were strung next to the tracks
• By the time of the transcontinental railroad the telegraph was famous across the U.S.

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