The Telegraph

The main job the the telegraph is to send electric signals through wires. Samuel Morse started working on the telegraph around 1832. In 1844 after years of trial and error Samuel was able to send his first message. This message stated "what hath God wrought." Starting in Washington DC,  Samuel worked very hard to extend his telegraph. He was slowly able to get his line to New York. While  Samuel was working on his telegraph, other companies such as Western Union were competing with him from other parts of the country. 

The biggest problem at the time was not being able to send messages quickly among states. This is why serval of people were competing to have the first successful telegraph. Before the telegraph was invented, people such a massagers would have to help send messages. This was a very slow and physical way to send messages and it would lead to a countless amount of problems. The telegraph also helped solve business problems. The telegraph allows businesses to obtain market prices. This is very important as business owners can communicate prices of the market and economy to find a perfect price for whatever they are selling. The last problem that the telegraph solved that I researched and found interesting is that lack of military communication. The military is made up of a huge group 

Something that I didn't know about the telegraph was how it helped out with the railroads daily. Being able to communicate where trains will be, this allowed trains to collide way less than they did before. This opened the door for modern railway communication. I can only imagine how hard it was to communicate where a trains location is without any communication between stations. Another very helpful use of the telegraphs on the train stations was the ability to communicate train failures. In the 1850s our trains would have Aton of failures. Being able to report these failures was essential as it allowed workers to keep working trains off of the same tracks with a broken trains.