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The first telegram. Professor Samuel Morse sending the dispatch as dictated by Miss Annie Ellsworth. The Baltimore–Washington telegraph line was the first long-distance telegraph system set up to run overland in the United States. [1] [2] [3]
The first telegraph office November 14, 1845 report in New York Herald on telegraph lines coming into operation. 1 April 1845: First public telegraph office opens in Washington, D.C., under the control of the Postmaster-General. [4] The public now had to pay for messages, which were no longer free. [5]
Samuel Morse's first experimental line between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore—the Baltimore-Washington telegraph line—was demonstrated on May 24, 1844. [3] By 1850 there were lines covering most of the eastern states, [4] and a separate network of lines was soon constructed in the booming economy of California.
The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.
However, the Democrats in power were hostile to federal spending. In 1837, Morse obtained funding from Congress to build a telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore, a distance of about forty miles. He spent seven years perfecting the system. Finally on May 24, 1844, he sent the first message, "What hath God wrought."
On May 24, 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America’s first telegraph line. In 1935, the first major ...
The first public transmission, with the message, "A patient waiter is no loser", was witnessed by a mostly local crowd. [18] Morse traveled to Washington, D.C. in 1838 seeking federal sponsorship for a telegraph line but was not successful. He went to Europe, seeking both sponsorship and patents, but in London discovered that Cooke and ...
Over the next few months Morse and Vail demonstrated the telegraph to Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, members of Congress, and President Martin Van Buren and his cabinet. Demonstrations such as these were crucial to Morse's obtaining a Congressional appropriation of $30,000 to build his first line in 1844 from Washington to Baltimore.