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Rejection
“Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me."
-Samuel F.B. Morse -
Progress on Telegraph
"While a professor of arts and design at New York University in 1835, Samuel Morse proved that signals could be transmitted by wire. He used pulses of current to deflect an electromagnet, which moved a marker to produce written codes on a strip of paper - the invention of Morse Code." - Mary Bellis -
Telegraph
First Public Demonstration of Samuel Morse's single wire telegraph. -
Funding
"What Hath God Wrought"
-First Telegraph Message Baltimore-Washington -
Mexican-American War
Mexican-American War begins. -
Mexican-American War Ends
Mexican-American War Ends -
Civil War Begins
American Civil War Begins -
Civil War
“Lincoln instinctively discerned the transformational nature of the new technology and applied its dots and dashes as an essential tool for winning the Civil War.”
– The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War -
Cable
"All well. The Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid."
- Cyrus Field on 5th and final attempt to lay transatlantic cable -
Telephone Call
“Mr. Watson…. Come here… I want to see you.”
- First Telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell -
Titanic
"SOS SOS CQD CQD Titanic. We are sinking fast. Passengers are being put into boats. Titanic."
-Last telegraphed message from the Titanic -
Internet Today
"I really see the telegraph as the original technology, the grandfather of all these other technologies that came out of it: the telephone, the teletype, the fax, the Internet,"
- Telegraph Historian Thomas Jepsen, "America's First Internet Turns 150"
