Why did Samuel Morse invent the telegraph?

Answer 1

Samuel Mores did not exactly invent, but came up with the idea and was later named after him for he used a early version for the telegraph which he did invent

Answer 2

Up to the 1800's the only way that people could communicate with other people over long distances was to physically carry it: either by walking or by using horses, ships, etc. So news traveled very slowly.

It was the discovery of electricity which gave Samuel Morse the idea of inventing the telegraph because he wanted to make long-distance communication faster.

Answer 3

The land telegraph was invented by Samuel F. B. Morse, in the 1830s I think. He built this thing that when a button was pushed at one place, it could cause a clacker to go clack at the other end of a wire many miles long. In order to send information over it, he invented a code of clacks for each letter of the alphabet ... which he modestly called Morse's Code. The message sent as the first public demonstration was "What hath god wrought".

Answer 4

The telegraph was invented to communicate more rapidly over longer distances.

Answer 5

to help important messages get to places safer and faster than horseback...

Answer 6

He was sick of having to leave his house to send a message so he motivated him self