Who invented the telegraph ?

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse Code

—-

Either Sir Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Fothergill Cooke in 1837 or Samuel Morse in 1847 (I think that is the patent date)… The two systems were distinct and Morse’s system became the international standard because it was simpler…

using the telegraph as its base, Bell invented the telephone…

http://www.maxmon.com/1837ad.htm
http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinve…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mors…

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 3:22 pm and is filed under Arts And Humanities. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.