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This technology is almost obsolete at this point, due to the inventions of telephones (and cellular phones), the internet, and other telecommunication systems that allow people to interact globally

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Through the telegraph, telecommunication became an important ideas for inventors to invest their time on: the radio and telephone were created shortly after the invention of the telegraph

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Compared to today's methods, the early telegraph was no better than the postal system since messages took weeks or even months to arrive at its designated location across the country. Later, however, telegrams could be sent in minutes or even seconds.

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Before the invention, communication was very difficult, especially across states or even the country. After the telegraph, the world changed; "It seemed as if information could flow like water."

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Prior to the telegraph's invention, people would communicate through “semaphore” which was a signaling system including flags or lights. Another form of communication was to write letters, which took weeks if not months to send back and forth.

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The public's want of long-distance communication in a short period of time

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The telegraph got its name since:
Tele = at a distance
Graph = diagram
and the invention is a diagram used to communicate over a distance

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Average citizens would communicate through letters through a postal service (manual transportation of letters, not just data/information)

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Before telegrams, long-distance communication was through “semaphore” which was a signaling system including flags or lights. An observer would decipher the signal from a high tower and send it to the next station.

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The telegraph was created as a faster method of telecommunication, or communication over a long distance.

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Each telegraph "consisted of a transmitter and receiver connected by one or more wires that carried electric current from a battery. At the transmitter, an operator caused current to flow in a particular pattern.” (Brown)

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Samuel B. Morse made the first long-distance electrical line in 1844, more than 50 years after Claude Chappe made a visual signaling system

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Invented by Claude Chappe in 1792, the visual signaling system was used for the telegraph for communication.