How did the inventions of the telegraph and the telephone affect communications?

Answer 1

-It advanced into the telephone.

-Helped communication.

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(Mind you this is strictly on the western expansion and civil war)

During its time, the telegraph was like a bomb in its effects. It came through in two places on the continental USA: The western coast, which was in the middle of the Western Expansion, and in the Eastern Coast during the Civil War.

On the western front, it allowed more people to become willing to leave their friends behind and travel to the far west. Before the telegraph the only methods of communicating with people in the mid-continent were either the (short-lived) Pony express -which could take months to deliver a letter- or via train-mail -where it was available.

The telegraph on the other hand was able to send a message in seconds, with the chances of your message being delivered on the afternoon mail if you timed it right. It was enough that it helped motivate more people to be willing to go all the way for the sake of the USA's 'manifest destiny'.

In the case of the Civil War, the telegraph allowed Lincoln to take direct charge of battles, a key factor in the winning of the Civil War and compensating for the weaker generals that the Union had. With the telegraph Lincoln was able to not only co-ordinate various units, but also prevent his subordinates from deviating from orders. It is, in fact, the first time a modern-day "War-Room" was established. with Lincoln receiving nearly live Intel from battlefields half the continent away. The Confederacy on the other hand had to deal with intel that was days old if the courier was fast, and the coordination of the armies was also poor, due to the lack of a well-established telegraph and railway network.

TLDR? here's a summation in two points (I'm bad at summeries tho):

1) Allowed the people who wanted to be able to send mail to mommy every day to head out west by providing the closest thing to IM'ing in the Wild-West times.

2)Allowed Lincoln to play Age of Empires III with Union armies to compensate for his generals holding the idiotball (until Grant shows up like a boss, and even then he keeps a tight leash) during Civil War.

Answer 2

The telegraph influenced us by helping make the computer and telephone. All 3 of these wonderful machines are used by pressing keys which type out messages

Answer 3

it was able to deliver messages over long distances in seconds and helped sailors out at sea

Answer 4

Established a more modern way of communication. The former was delivering messages via horseback.

Answer 5

how is it used to share news

Answer 6

People could communicate quickly over long distances -apex