Time before the telegraph
How were messages delivered before the telegraph?
What is horseback?
What is visual signals?
What is the unreliable mail system?
How did the telegraph improve the railroad system?
What is allowed railroad operators to quickly communicate the location of different trains and prevent them from colliding?
What university was Morse a professor at?
What is NYU?
What is the name of the series of dots and dashes that correspond with letters and numbers used to deliver messages?
What is Morse Code?
Why was the telegraph created?
What is provide a quicker, more efficient method of communication?
How did the telegraph change the way wars were fought?
What is allowed government officials to communicate military orders with generals more efficiently?
What year did Morse invent the telegraph?
What is 1837?
How were electromagnetic signals transfered?
What is through telegraph lines?
Why was it difficult for Americans to network and market their businesses?
What is they lived on rural farmlands?
How did the telegraph change the media?
What is allowed newspapers and media outlets to share important headlines with the public at a much faster rate than ever before?
What was the first public telegraph message sent by Samuel F.B. Morse from Washington, D.C., to a Baltimore?
What is “What hath God wrought!”?
Name 3 parts of the telegraph?
What is Indicator, battery, key?