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before an actual multibit system would come into use in the teletype,
which automated information delivery for the rst time.
9.1.2 1837: Electrical Telegraph
In 1825, upon the death of his wife while he was out of town, Samuel
Morse, a painter, vowed to develop a form of long- distance communica-
tion. While there were numerous other telegraph inventions that were
patented at the same time, Morse’s invention was the simplest and easi-
est to use, and by 1861 it had connected the East and West Coasts of the
United States.
9.1.3 1876: Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone;
1880: Invention of the Photophone
Alexander ...