The History Of The Telegraph Is Way More Interesting Than You Think
Nov 5 · 9 min read
We’ve all seen it in books or movies — a guy from the 1870’s hunched over a little telegraph key, tapping out messages to someone far off in the distance. It got a sentence or two in my elementary school textbook — Samuel Morse developed the telegraph, and a code to use it. It’s a pretty simple device — just an electromagnet pulling down on a spring loaded arm. That’s it…

