[SMCARA] FW: [AQRP] Today in History

[Mike Hasel]

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January 6: General Interest
1838 : Morse demonstrates telegraph

On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse's telegraph system is demonstrated for the
first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The
telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit encoded
messages over a wire, would eventually revolutionize long-distance
communication, reaching the height of its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born April 27, 1791, in Charlestown,
Massachusetts. He attended Yale University, where he was interested in art,
as well as electricity, still in its infancy at the time. After college,
Morse became a painter. In 1832, while sailing home from Europe, he heard
about the newly discovered electromagnet and came up with an idea for an
electric telegraph. He had no idea that other inventors were already at work
on the concept.

Morse spent the next several years developing a prototype and took on two
partners, Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail, to help him. In 1838, he
demonstrated his invention using Morse code, in which dots and dashes
represented letters and numbers.

In 1843, Morse finally convinced a skeptical Congress to fund the
construction of the first telegraph line in the United States, from
Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. In May 1844, Morse sent the first official
telegram over the line, with the message: "What hath God wrought!"

Over the next few years, private companies, using Morse's patent, set up
telegraph lines around the Northeast. In 1851, the New York and Mississippi
Valley Printing Telegraph Company was founded; it would later change its
name to Western Union. In 1861, Western Union finished the first
transcontinental line across the United States. Five years later, the first
successful permanent line across the Atlantic Ocean was constructed and by
the end of the century telegraph systems were in place in Africa, Asia and
Australia.

Because telegraph companies typically charged by the word, telegrams became
known for their succinct prose--whether they contained happy or sad news.
The word "stop," which was free, was used in place of a period, for which
there was a charge. In 1933, Western Union introduced singing telegrams.
During World War II, Americans came to dread the sight of Western Union
couriers because the military used telegrams to inform families about
soldiers' deaths.

Over the course of the 20th century, telegraph messages were largely
replaced by cheap long-distance phone service, faxes and email. Western
Union delivered its final telegram in January 2006.

Samuel Morse died wealthy and famous in New York City on April 2, 1872, at
age 80.
gr
GLEN REID
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