Telegraph



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In 1837 the first electrical telegraph instruments were invented by Samuel Morse in the United States and by Charles Wheatstone and William F. Cooke in Great Britain. Morse sent the first public telegraph message in 1844. Pictured here is the original Morse receiving device.

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