To the industrialists,
I, Samuel Morse, am surely going to convince you all that my recent invention, the telegraph, will be without a doubt, the most influential piece of technology that has ever existed. The telegraph is an extraordinary invention that allows information to be communicated between individuals in a rapid and efficient manner. Through your investment, the first telegraph in history will be created! My invention will send messages at a rapid rate and our national and international news will no longer be reduced and outdated. The telegraph will prevent conflicts and wars as well as become the initiator of many more technologies to come. I believe that this invention has the capacity to revolutionise not only the United States
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When the Morse Key is pressed, the electrical circuit that runs through the ground is completed. This allows an electric current to flow through the cable and the morse code message is sent directly to the receiver. At the receiving end of the circuit, the electric current is not only used to send the message but it is also used to provide power to a printing device. The electromagnet attracts the armature and the stylus moves down towards a roll of paper tape and prints the morse code symbol onto it. The printing of the message allows it to be stored so that it can be read at a later date. When the Morse Key is released, the circuit breaks and the armature is no longer attracted to the electromagnet. The armature will then go back to its original position until the Morse Key is pressed again. When the Morse Key is pressed very quickly it represents a dot whereas a longer amount of contact time represents a dash/line. After the entire message has been wrote and sent to the receiving end it is decoded from Morse Code and read by the individuals receiving the information. Through this process, communication is instantaneous and very effective for not only those sending the message but also those who are receiving it. The telegraph will be very rewarding and beneficial for the spread of communication all around the …show more content…
I decided upon the name telegraph as it is derived from the Greek words tele, meaning distant, and graphein, meaning to write. I have been waiting to ask for an investment since 1837 when the economic disaster known as The Panic took ahold of our nation and caused a long depression. I was forced to wait for better times. Years later, our country has begun to recover economically and I am ready to make a proposal for the money that I will require if you decide to invest in my invention. I will be offering you 20% of the profit made from the telegraph in return for $30,000. This money will be used to build the first telegraph line in the world. The telegraph will travel from Washington to Baltimore; these locations are distanced forty miles apart. The line will be used for the very first demonstration of my invention. I am certain that it will convince many more individuals of just how phenomenal the telegraph is. It is in fact predicted that by 1880 over 29 million messages will be able to be swiftly sent through the telegraph system. I already have many trustworthy and reliable partners that are willing to help in the production of the first telegraph. As well as this, I have already hired an ingenious construction engineer named Ezra Cornell who will lay the pipe carrying the wire. I am certain that he will do his job superbly. Invest in
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.
Wireless begins with a brief discussion of the 1995 centennial of the invention of radio by Marconi and a rebuttal by the British historians who oppose this claim. Using underused or previously overlooked or perhaps ignored resources the author disproves the claims against the originality and ingenuity of Marconi's 1897 patent on wireless telegraphy. While credit is given to several British scientists and engineers and their scientific discoveries and inventions, it was Marconi, a practitioner, who made the first significant breakthrough in practical wireless telegraphy when he "connected one end of the plate of the receiver, and one end of the transmitter, to the earth" (p. 20). Marconi transformed these scientific effects into wireless technologies and then exploited them for commercial purposes. The focus of British scientists and engineers on optical analogies, scientific experimentation and demonstration, and the fear of British national interests becoming monopolized (particularly by a foreigner) are the primary reasons for the dispute surrounding Marconi's patent. (By 1897 it was clear how wireless telegraphy would impact military interests.) The author shows in great detail how British scientists and engineers, namely physicist Oliver Lodge, J. J. Thomson, Minchin, Rollo Appleyard, and Campbell Swinton, deliberately constructed false scientific and social claims to discredit the originality of Marconi's patent.
On January 9th, 1917 a message was sent from Germany to the German minister in Mexico. This message, later to be known as the Zimmermann Telegram was the final piece to a German plot to embroil the United States into a war with Mexico, Japan or both in order to cripple Allied supply lines fueling Allied operations in Europe.
"In the fall of 1999, Arts & Entertainment Television aired a three-hour series titled, “Biography of the Millennium." The show counted down from 100 the most influential people of the last 1000 years, and number one on the list was Johannes Gutenberg. This German craftsman revolutionized the world in the 1450s by inventing the printing the printing press"(Background Essay). The most important consequence of the printing press were it changes life of millions, we learn from it by reading books, magazines, novels and it spread because everyone started using it pretty quickly.
The Victorian Internet is a book reflects the story of telegraph invention which opened the doors for many technological communications inventions, such as the telephone and consequently the internet. Tom Standage the author who wrote this book born in 1969.He graduated from Oxford University then he persuaded a career as journalist and author (Word Press). Standage wrote the first copy of the Victorian Internet in 1998, which is only few years after the internet invention. The author’s title “the Victorian-era telegraph” was impartial, because he described events happened in the Victorian-era with any exaggeration or degradation, although he was biased in his text towards the telegraph invention. The author in his book described two main reasons
When Thomas became thirteen he asked his parents if he could get a job, they let him. He took the job of becoming a newsboy and “candy butcher” on the trains of the Grand Trunk Railway, running between Port Huron and Detroit. While having a job was fun for Thomas, he spent much of his free time reading scientific and technical books, he also spent some of this time learning how to operate a telegraph. In 1862, when he was fifteen, he printed and published the first ever newspaper to be typeset and printed on a moving train, The Weekly Herald. The London Times featured him and his paper in one of their stories, giving him his first exposure to international notoriety. Around the same time Thomas Edison had saved the son of J.U. Mackenzie, a station agent at Mount Clemens, Michigan. As a sign of gratitude, the child’s father taught him telegraphy. A few months later, when he was close to the age of sixteen, he hung a telegraph line from the Port Huron railway station to the Port Huron village and worked in the local telegraph office. By the time he was really at the age of sixteen, he was skilled enough to work as a telegrapher full time. (Beals,
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”- Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison was a great inventor. He has created many things we use today .One thing that caught my eye was his improved telegraph. Without a doubt, Thomas Edison's telegraph changed everyday life for people around the world. The way it performs is a work of art. Thomas Edison had a personal connection with the telegraph. His telegraph affected the world. Distinctly, Thomas Edison’s telegraph changed today’s society.
Alexander Graham Bell is the man most remembered for creating the telephone. Other than that he is a man who always had an obsession for communication. Mr. Bell once said, “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of man minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.” Alexander Graham Bell’s actions are shown in three ways in this essay; the telephone, other inventions, and his passion for communication.
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.
The electric telegraph is a now outdated communication system that was used to transmit electric signals over wires from location to location that translated into a message by people at stations.
The telegraph was developed in the 1830’s-1840’s by Samuel Morse. The telegraph or also known as the electric telegraph, would be a tremendous help during the war it
On March 10th, 1876, a revolutionary invention was created by Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone was invented to send vibrations from one receiver to another electrically (History.com ‘Speech Transmitted by Telephone’ accessed on March 11, 2014), and due to Alexander Graham Bell accidentally discovering that he could hear the sound of a ‘clock spring twanging’ (Marry Bellis, ‘The History of the Telephone’ accessed on March 11, 2014), that was possible. The invention of the telephone permitted new levels of communication, allowed families connect around the world, and improved military systems, but also served negative consequences, such as breached privacy. If two people wanted to have a conversation, they would have to write letters back and forth, but with the telephone they were able to pick up the receiver, dial the number, and be connected in a matter of minutes. Telephones enabled long-distance communication, which allowed families to converse despite their location. Military officials and soldiers were also able to stay in touch through field telephones as well as keep contact with the president. Although telephones were originally placed in general stores or other major city locations and homes/neighborhoods that were wired (Elon.edu ‘World Changes Due to the Telephone’ accessed on April 2, 2014), telephones became commonly used in homes in the early twentieth century when telephones began to connect internationally.
He also used math to make the morse code. The machine was called a telegraph, which used a mathematical sequence to transmit messages faster, and across greater distances. The name of the mathematical sequence was Morse Code, which was named it’s inventor Samuel Morse. Morse Code uses short and long signals to create alphabetical messages, or words, to transmit messages. During Morse’s time, this benefitted people by allowing messages to travel faster than the old fashioned of horse and rider. Morse code nowadays is used mainly by military and military accomplices morse code is very popular in the american economy the morse code turned out to help produce TV, internet and radios that's crazy that's the way we use morse code and that is the way we benefit from
Before I had attended this module, my biggest aim was to understand how we communicate with each other and how we adapt our speech to fit the situation we are in. As I am combining Communication, Media and Culture with Film Studies, I wanted this module to help me build my confidence so that in the future, I can pitch my film ideas confidently. It was important for me to develop my communication skills as this would enable me to express myself clearly and concisely.