Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Telegraph
- By: Jaiden Churchman, Sydney Dawkins, Ana Mathews
- Inventor(S)
- Sam
Morse
- Joseph
Henry
- Cluade
Chapp
- Date
- 1837
- 1835
- Effects
- General: Helped communications along into things such as the telephone
- Economical: Brought in more Money
- Political: Congress thought it was skeptical
- Social: Helped with communications
- Background Information
- Sam Morse
Stepped in
created and
advertised
the invention
of the
telegraph
- Joseph
Henry
came up
with the
Idea
- Details on
invention
- The telegraph helps
communicate between
two places instead of
using the pony express
etc.
- Using Morse Code is
an easier way to
communicate
- Sends an electric
current through a
wire to connect to the
telegraph machine it's
self
- Essential Questions
- Why was the
industrial revolution
an appropriate time
for the telegraph to
be invented?
- How did sam
Morse come up
with the idea of
the telegraph?
- How do you think
the electric
telegraph
influenced
american history?