How Did Samuel Morse Revolutionized Communication

Over the course of Human evolution people have been coming up with new and inventive ways to communicate with one another. Some of the earliest evidence of human communication is in a cave in France. In 1940 researchers found paintings from the Paleolithic area showing humans communicating by hunting in a systematic fashion(Boundless textbook) . This shows just how far back people have been trying to work together. Now jumping forward to 2016 people today have amazing technologies that will allow them to get in touch with loved ones overseas in a matter of minutes. But how exactly did we go from drawing pictures on our walls to hi-speed internet? Well one man’s invention revolutionized the industry of communication allowing generations to

Samuel Morse is the man accredited for inventing not only the telegraph but mores code.

Samuel Morse was born April 27 1791 in Boston Massachusetts where he grew up with two younger brothers. In his earlier years he was very passionate about art and even attended an art school before his parents sent him to Yale. This is where mores first starts learning about magnets and electromagnetism. After his 5 years at Yale Samuel begged his parents to allow him to study art with masters in Britain (1810). After a while his patents gave in a sent him to England where he would be an apprentice to many famous artists at the Royal Academy. It was his time in England that he would learn about a Physicist named Hans Christian Oersted and his experiments with electromagnetism. Hans found a way to show that magnets and electricity have an effect on one another. After he was able to prove his theory two other scientists came a long and made a machine that would spin a needle around a board and point to different

At the time this was the fastest way to travel paired with now the fastest way to communicate mores code was able to send messages from train station to train station giving people a more accurate time of train arrival and departure. The first international mores code was sent in 1858 but President Jackson to queen Victoria. However some months later the cable stopped working and more cables would have to be laid in the future. (Greg Timmons) It wasn’t until World War one that the telegraph truly served a meaningful purpose. Because of the telegraph America was able to communicate secret messages with their allies and generals across the sea. This gave America a huge advantage because places like Germany had yet to discover how to read Mores