9 sentences with 'telegraph'
Example sentences and phrases with the word telegraph and other words derived from it.
• « The telegraph was also invented in 1830 and was initially used to warn railway stations when there were several trains on the track. »
• « The inventor of the telegraph, Samuel Morse, invented a code based on these signals that could be translated into letters and, as a result, used to send messages. »
• « In some cases, the rest of the nation would read about the revolution in their newspapers or by telegraph after the revolution had already succeeded in the capital. »
• « For example, for the first time, cities in Europe acquired the means to communicate almost instantaneously (by telegraph) with their colonies. »
• « Before the telegraph, a message and reply could take up to two years to travel between England and India, but after telegraph lines were constructed in the course of the mid-19th century decades, a message and reply could make the circuit in just two days. This, of course, greatly increased the efficiency of governing in the context of world empires. »
• « Samuel Morse added the telegraph to the list of American innovations introduced in the years before the Civil War. »
• « In 1843, Congress agreed to help fund the new technology by appropriating $30,000 for a telegraph line connecting Washington, DC, and Baltimore along the route of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. »
• « In 1844, Morse sent the first telegraph message over the new link. Improved communication systems fostered the development of business, economics and politics by enabling the dissemination of news at a speed previously unknown. »