Communication in today’s world is an extremely important part of our everyday life. Not to mention the multiple forms of communication there now are; emails, texting, phone calls, letters, the list could go on. However, it all had to start somewhere. From cave paintings to copper plate scrolls to the printing press and the telegraph, the evolution of communication is nonstop and will continue in this direction. Developed in the 1830’s and 1840’s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire in between stations. Samuel Morse’s invention and construction of the telegraph played a large role in the modernization of communication and led to the transformation of America through hard work, dedication, and perseverance along with some intervention of the federal government. In the first paragraph when Morse describes his first model of the telegraph, it is given in great detail. He knew what he was talking about and everything that he described about the telegraph had a very unique role it played in order to …show more content…
It seems that he is a very resourceful person which aided him in his invention. He goes on to say, “I also experimented with the chemical power of the electric current in 1836 and succeeded in marking my telegraphic signs upon paper dipped in turmeric and a solution of the sulphate of soda” (Morse, Samuel, 1999). Even though the resources were limited it never stopped him from trying new things and discovering new information and material that would later have a positive impact on his invention. Morse’s life was the telegraph, “...I had for many months lodged and eaten in my studio….and this was my mode of life for many years” (Morse, Samuel, 1999). This man put in many hours to make his invention succeed and would not let anything get in the way of
A year later he opened his first industrial laboratory, where he would conduct several different experiments. His next major invention was the Quadruplex telegraph for Western Union, which was capable of transmitting two signals in two directions on a single wire. Jay Gould, the railroad industrialist, bought the rights of the telegraph and offered Edison a sum of $100000 dollars for his invention.
I hope I have answered the question “What was his personal life like?” good in here and would like to summarize by saying that he was able to overcome all odds to become a famous inventor that even had a movie made by him. I would also like to say that He made many, many products that we still use all from simple plants like peanuts in summary to the answer of the question “What did he actually do?”. He also had many hobbies that ended up in helping many people (“What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?”). I have found that this man that I knew nothing about before the report is one of the few real life people I know of that overcame so many things in his life that almost no one even knows
The urgency of communication was never much felt until the beginning and use of telegraphy. It was much easier to transmit and receive messages over long distances that no longer needed physical transport of letters.
He used a comparison pattern to describe telegraph invention with the internet, and how was more important to invent this device similar to the internet invention. Reading through the book gives a different criterion of the implementation and evolution of the telegraph device in Europe and United States. Although Standage’s book lacks deep technical aspects, he tells the story of telegraph invention in simple and interesting chronical way. In fact, he started his first chapter by mentioning the rumors of inventing a magical device to transfer letter between people mile apart in the late of the sixteen century. By 1791 two French scientist brothers Claude and Rene Chappe invented the first version of the Telegraph. The working principle of this device was mechanical and optical, which had failed in the dark. The Chappe brothers continued their trials until 1793 they succeeded to invent the first dependable device to transmit messages over long distances. At this time, the telegraph first named tachygraph from the Greek word tachy which means fast, then they changed to telegraph. The new invention became fully operational by 1794, where it played an important role to send a report of the capture of town from the Austrians and Prussians. The success of using the telegraph in civilian and military matter encouraged Napoleon to build wider telegraph network by 1804. During the nineteen century, the telegraph machine evolved to a wider global communication network to cross the continents especially in England and the United States, where Samuel Morse developed a newer version of the telegraph by
Samuel Morse contributed many things to American society. In 1832 when returning from Europe from a period of art study on the ship Sully, Samuel overheard a conversation about the newly discovered electromagnets and came up with the idea of an electric telegraph. By 1835 he had his first telegraph model working in the New York University building. In 1837, he acquired two partners to help him develop his telegraph. Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail were the two men that he chose. They applied for a patent in 1837 for the telegraph, which included the dot and dash code.
Morse was a very friendly guy. Being a natural leader, he was a founder and the first president of the National Academy of Design, but was lost his campaigns to become mayor of New York or a Congressman. In 1832, while returning on the ship from another period of studying art in Europe, Morse heard a conversation about the newly discovered electromagnet and got the idea of an electric telegraph. He mistakenly thought that the idea of such a telegraph was new, helping to give him the go ahead and push the idea forward. By 1835 he probably had his first telegraph model working in the New York University building where he taught art. Being poor, Morse used materials like an old artist's canvas stretcher to hold his invention, a home-made battery and an old clock-work to move the paper on which dots and dashes were to be recorded.
Morse sent a 19-letter message to his assistant Albert Vail in Baltimore who actually transmitted the message back to him a moment later. It was at this time Congress members was watching this exhibition with much fascination. The message was ‘What Hath God Wrought’? This question is taken from the bible (Numbers 23:23) which reads’ Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!’ and had been the offer of the daughter of the patent commissioner, named Annie Eilworth. He had spent 12 years working on and perfecting this invention. On May 24, 1884, he launched the world’s first marketable telegraph line with a message. It was said that this message was very applicable given the invention’s potential, opportunity, and impact that it would have on America’s life. In light of the verbiage spoken by Annie Ellsworth, they may take on more importance than she probably projected of what had God wrought indeed for America. When we think of the phase of What Hath God Wrought today, we would lean not to refer to great discoveries but yet an awful tragedy. Maybe this would be just an unusual reflection of God or Technology from a different era or maybe even both. Usually when we think of the mighty acts of God, we tends to think of a disaster, but Morse was thinking
Communication was largely relegated to envoys, land mail, and letters carried on ships before the development of the telegraph. These methods of communication took as "little" time as a few weeks, or as much time as a few months to reach their intended recipient. This is less than ideal because it does not allow vital information, such as political and military occurrences, to be relayed in time for government officials to provide feedback and advice on the matters at hand. The delayed delivery also makes it so that leaders may not have an accurate understanding of the current status of the party that is sending the message. In an area that was as unknown as Africa, being knowledgeable about the current status of the colonies was paramount. The telegraph, couples with the undersea cable, made it so information, such as "commercial and military requirements, administrative decisions, and news" could be relayed in the span of a few hours. In conjunction with the addition of transportation infrastructure, particularly railroads, goods and troops could be relocated to areas of higher need in far less time than before the Industrial
On August 10th, 1876 in Branford Ohio the device that changed the way messages were sent was born. Bell had created a phone that was capable of withstanding a conversation with a great deal of distance. Businesses started to use these phones by intertwining wires to create a connection between two long distances, and this made companies able to not have to hire workers to send messages to one another. Before the invention of the telephone,
The Full Monty story to me is one of the comedy film I have seen, the funniest was doing their rehearsals and their auditions, though I will have to rate it as a PG because of some indecent scenario such as when they showed the naked back of those men, I won’t have advised a child to see it despite how funny it is. The movie is based on 6 men who did not have any other means of survival and who decided to bring up stripping as a business. After the fall of the steel industry due to the economic changes, Gaz and his friend Dave were rendered jobless. Dave was unable to take care of his wife while Gaz on the other hand needs to pay his child support fee to be able to take his child from his wife and his wife’s husband. Things became
“While Samuel Morse was travelling through Europe he observed the French device called the “semaphore,”. It was an “early telegraph system that communicated optically by way of windmill-like towers with adjustable arms (DEV, 2017)”. The devices were constructed all over France in the 18th and 19th centuries and used primarily for national and military communications. The semaphore towers had a distance between them of approximately six miles. The devices worked by moving their arms to a position that could be recognized to match a letter or character in the French alphabet. “Messengers manning each station would read each message by telescope and pass it along to the next station, making communication
Over time, civilization must have gotten tired of all those long hazy conversations, and a horse and carriage system was born to deliver messages here and there. History came a long, long way, but eventually, communication through wires was introduced. For this we can give credit to Claude Chappe who invented the telegraph in 1792, and then Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, the first man to develop the communication of voices through wires. Communication History took its turning point, when in 1894 in Italy; a hopeful scientist Gulielmo Marconi created an invention called "Wireless".