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The Beginning of the Telegraph

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Beginning of the Telegraph:

  • The telephone was deemed impossible
  • Many different people claimed to have created the telephone 
  • The word telephone was originally used to describe any device that dealt with acoustics, sound from afar whether it was electrical or not
  • Charles Wheatsone, galvanic music
  • Different signals, with different sounds could be sent down a single wire
  • This means that more messages could be sent on a already built infrastructure
  • Gray VS Bell
  • Many legal battles were fought to the rights to the telephone
  • Social Necessity, improving the economics of telegraphy and the emergence of the modern corporation
  • Telegraph was seen for its long distance capabilities and telephone for short distance