'Samuel Morse' is the inventor of a wire telegraph

Samuel FB Morse is an American inventor and painter. After gaining fame as a painter in early life, he invented a one-wire telegraph system based on the European telegraph system

Feb 7, 2023 - 20:24
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'Samuel Morse' is the inventor of a wire telegraph
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Samuel FB Morse is an American inventor and painter. After gaining fame as a painter in early life, he invented a one-wire telegraph system based on the European telegraph system. He played a role in the development of Morse code. It was through his hands that the use of the telegraph spread.

Between 1830 and 1840, Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other scientists invented telegraph technology. In 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message from Washington DC to Baltimore, Maryland. Within 1866, telegraph lines were installed from America, the coast of the Atlantic Ocean to the whole of Europe. Although the use of the telegraph began to decline at the beginning of the 21st century due to telephones, fax machines and the Internet, the telegraph is considered the seed of these later inventions. Its discovery is known as a milestone in world history. Samuel Morse died on April 2, 1872 in New York City.


However, Morse encountered difficulties in transmitting telegraphic signals over 100 yards. With the help of New York University chemistry teacher Leonard Gale, he was able to send messages over a distance of 10 miles or 16 kilometers by adding additional circuits or relays.


In 1843, Morse A Valley received the first funding from the American Congress to test telegraphs from Washington DC to Maryland. On May 24, 1844, Morse sent the first successful telegraph message to Morse Valley, which read, "What hath God rot'!". Soon after this telegraph system spread all over the world including America. Along with this, many improvements are coming in this system. One of which is Erza Cornell, one of the founders of New York University and inventor of advanced insulation wire. Invention of quadruplex system by Thomas Alva Edison to transmit 4 messages simultaneously over a single wire.


In the 20th century, two discoveries in electrical science accelerated the invention of the telegraph. One was the discovery of the battery by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1800, which was able to store enough electricity in a specific cell. The other was the relationship between electric and magnetic forces by Danish scientist Hans Christian Oersted in 1820. Establishment. The scientists around the world who use this knowledge to create technology capable of communication and exchange of ideas are the two groups of scientists who are credited with the invention of the telegraph: England's Sir William Cook (1806-1879) and Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875). and Samuel Morse, Leonard Gale (1800-1883) and Alfred Vallee (1807-59) in the United States.


In 1830, the scientific team of Sir William Cook and Charles Wheatstone invented a telegraph system in which 5 magnetic needles were electrically pointed to a multi-colored and numbered panel. Soon this technology started to be used in railway stations in England. At the same time, Samuel Morse, who was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Yale, focused on creating a separate telegraph system. Morse began his career as a printer. While traveling from Europe to America in 1830, he learned about the telegraph and electromagnetic energy, and later learned a great deal about it from the American physicist Joseph Henry. Together with Galle and Vallee, Morse invented a single circuit telegraph machine. The circuit was completed by having a switch and connecting it to the circuit by pressing it. This causes an electric current to travel from one end of the device to the other, which carries an electrical signal. And it only required a switch, battery and wires to connect the two ends.

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