REMAKING HISTORYBy William Gurstelle
Samuel Morse and the Telegraph
Prior to Samuel F.B. Morse’s invention of the electric telegraph, there was no good way to communicate information across distance at any speed greater than that of a horsed rider. Sure, there were some limited experiments, such as semaphore. Men stood on hilltops signaling with flags and noting one another’s coded movements through spyglasses. This was clumsy and slow. Worse, it was incredibly expensive because it required a lot of men on a lot of hilltops to relay messages ...
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