What are the stories of the people who invented the telegram?

Answer 1

There are some stories about the inventors of the telegraph.

Samuel F. B. Morse, an American painter, was deeply inspired by a young doctor named Charles Jackson who showed an electromagnet on a ship in 1832. Morse then decided to turn his studio into an electromagnetic laboratory to study electromagnetism. He faced many difficulties and even spent all his money on experiments, but he still continued with the help of friends and by painting to earn a living. He had a unique research idea. He thought that the sudden cut - off of current to produce electric sparks could be signals, and the absence of electric sparks and the length of time without them could also be signals. These three types of signals could be combined to represent numbers or letters. Finally, in 1835, he developed the first sample of the telegraph in the United States. And in 1838, he invented the unique Morse code composed of "dots" and "dashes".

Charles Wheatstone, a 19th - century British physicist, also made contributions to the invention of the telegraph. He and Cook (W.F.Cooke) invented the five - needle telegraph in 1837.

Before them, there were also other inventors' attempts. For example, in 1833, the German scientists Gauss and Weber developed an electromagnetic telegraph and used a deflecting magnetic needle to transmit information. They also had their own "secret code" for transmission. However, their invention was not widely used due to some practical problems. And in 1835, the Russian scientist Schilling also invented a practical telegraph machine.
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