A neglected anniversary of sorts came and went May 24; it was the first public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph 178 years ago at B&O Mount Clare Station, today the home of the Baltimore ...

In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the hydraulic telegraph. This ancient invention utilized synchronized water clocks ...

The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named ...

When Samuel Morse died in 1872, Chicago’s mayor offered an effusive elegy to the telegraph’s pioneer, as well he might. Without Morse’s contributions to the development of telegraphy, Joseph Medill ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Samuel F.B. Morse patented an electric telegraph machine on June 20th 1840.

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About 62 people had claimed invention of the first electric telegraph by 1837, when Britain started the first operating telegraph using five needles to point to alphabet letters. New York professor ...

Thanks to Samuel F.B. Morse, communication changed rapidly, and has been changing ever faster since. He invented the electric telegraph in 1832. It took six more years for him to standardize a code ...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Staccato clicks tapped from an old brass gadget. Derek Cohn, his ear fixed upon the mysterious rhythm, jotted letters onto paper. From Bloomington, Ill., came the weather report: ...

The 100th anniversary of the death of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, was observed quietly Sunday by his granddaughter, Ms. Clara Morse, by the placing of a bouquet in his memory on the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE For more than a century, lives and the world were affected by messages sent and received via a series of formalized “dits” and “dahs” known as Morse code. The tones are created by a ...