Samuel Mores, the inventor of the telegraph and creator of Morse Code sent the first official telegraph message on May 24, 1844.
Morse is best known as the inventor of the telegraph, but he is also known for his art. He was acknowledged and esteemed for his contributed to American portraiture.
It was while he was returning from Europe he began to take a interest in communication systems. He was originally returning from Europe to assume a position of an arts professor at New York University. But during this time he began to employ the elector-magnet and series of relays through a network of telegraph stations.
In order for this to work, he Mores created Morse Code, electronic dashes and dots made into a alphabet to transmit telegraphic messages.
Morse sent the first official message on May 24, 1844 from the capital building in Washington D.C., to Baltimore. The message was:
“What hath God wrought?”
This message was suggested to Morse by Annie Ellsworth, she was the young daughter of a friend of his. This message was actually a Bible verse Numbers 23:23.
By October 1861 the Western Union had completed the first transcontinental telegraph line. This completely doomed the Pony Express and made electronic telecommunications indispensable.
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
-Samuel Morse
