Samuel morse telegraph video for kids
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Free Resources About the Telegraph and Telephone Inventions
Communication is the cornerstone of our society. These free resources about the telegraph and the telephone inventions will help your students learn about the evolution of communication.
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Can you think of what we would do without any form of communication or even electronic communication?
Samuel morse telegraph video for kids
Many societies live with it, yet ours has become accustomed – if not dependent – on it.
One of the inventions that has really changed our world is the innovation of electronic communications which has only occurred within the last 100 years.
It all began with the telegraph.
The telegraph is the long-distance transmission of written messages that does’t require the physical transport of letters.
It works via electric pulses in a special code depicted by long and short marks (usually Morse Code).
Telegraphs in the 1700s originally contained a zillion (I am being sarcastic) wires. In 1844, Samuel Morse perfected