not once, but twice.
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One of the first was a remote switch called a relay in 1835 by Joseph Henry. It was part of a telegraph and later used in the telephone.
Joseph Henry was an American scientist born the 17th of December of 1797. He discovered the electromagnetic phenomenon of self-inductance and developed the electromagnet. His work and studies where the basis of the Electrical Telegraph, invented years later by Samuel F. B. Morse.
The Invention of the Telegraph by Joseph Henry in 1831 led to the invention of the phone.
In 1838 Samuel Morse perfected Joseph Henry's invention of the electromagnet. It was not until 1843 that the government funded a telegraph graph line from Washington to Baltimore.
Joseph Henry. He did not patent it though, and Samuel Morse stole his idea and patented it.
Alfred Vail, and kind of Joseph Henry even though Morse or Vail never really gave credit to Henry.
Henry Ford didn't invent the car.
Like so many large breakthroughs, the 'building' of an electric telegraph occurred over a period of time and via a number of people and events during the early 1800's.
While most textbooks credit Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872) with inventing the telegraph, there were actually several other inventors working on it at the same time. Some historians credit Alfred Vail with important work on the telegraph, while others also credit Joseph Henry. There is scholarly consensus that while Morse took much of the credit for himself and certainly had the ultimate success with transmitting messages by telegraph, the contributions of Vail, Henry, and several others made that success possible.
Joseph Henry Steele died in September 1980.
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