How did the telegraph inprove from the 1800s to today?
the telegraph was the new form of commutcation! it helped invent the phones and everything else with out that i would be mailing you a letter about this. if you want more info…: The electric telegraph is a now outdated communication system that transmitted electric signals over wires from location to location that translated into a message. The non-electric telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe in 1794. This system was visual and used semaphore, a flag-based alphabet, and depended on a line of sight for communication. The optical telegraph was replaced by the electric telegraph, the focus of this article. In 1809, a crude telegraph was invented in Bavaria by Samuel Soemmering. He used 35 wires with gold electrodes in water and at the receiving end 2000 feet the message was read by the amount of gas caused by electrolysis. In 1828, the first telegraph in the USA. was invented by Harrison Dyar who sent electrical sparks through chemically treated paper tape to burn dots and dashes.
