Samuel Morse was born in 1791 in Charleston, Massachusetts. He was a very talented person. He went to Yale at the age of 14 and was a painter as his first job. Later in life, he invented the telegraph and Morse code.

A telegraph is a machine that uses electrical signals to send messages through wires over long distances. The electrical signals were series’ of dots and dashes. These dots and dashes were Morse code, invented by Samuel Morse, Morse code had dots and dashes for each letter and number.

The purpose of the telegraph was to send messages over long distances. At the time of Samuel Morse, they didn’t have technology like we have now. It was hard to communicate with people you couldn’t talk to face to face. The only way to communicate was by sending letters which would take a long time to get to their destination.

Once people started hearing about the telegraph, they were very excited. People were now able to send messages to newspapers so that everyone could know about new news. The railroads could also use the stations and track where the trains were.