in 1832 painter samuel fb morse reasoned that electricity might be used to carry long distance messages through wiresmorse spent the next 3 years working on the telegraph. morse and alfred vail developed the dot dash communication system that we call morse codemay 24 1844 morse demonstrated the telegraph by sending the first telegraph message. it was sent between washington dc and baltimore. the message was "what hath god wrought?" by 1846 there were more than 5000 miles of telegraph line in the us with another 3000 under construction. this allowed ppl all over the country to get news the day it happened

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