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Morse Telegraph

Date Submitted: 02/03/2004 13:07:36
Category: / History
Length: 2 pages (592 words)
In the beginning of the industrial age, cities were expanding and railroads were growing, but people couldn't get messages or news to other people fast enough. There were some electrical communications, but all were to slow or to complicating. Railroads were growing to fast, they were connecting cities to each other, and there needed some form of communication of some sort fast enough to past messages around. That is what Morse system of telegraphy did. …
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…troop deployment and intelligence. Even the flow of oil through pipelines was controlled by Morse telegraph. The railroad and the steamship improved communications within nations and across the world. Britain introduced an inexpensive postal system, which further improved communication. Messages that once would have taken days to arrive now took minutes or seconds. In 1851, the first underwater telegraph cable was installed under the English Channel. It made rapid communication between Britain and the continent possible.
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