Life before the telegraph was a different way than sending messages with the telegraph. People used letters to send messages.
People used the pony express to communicate from large distances before the telegraph.
Submarine telegraph has written: 'The story of my life'
The telegraph
hand written letters
Before the telegraph people sent written letters and could take from days to weeks possibly a month to receive it.
There was a vast network of Telegraph lines and telegraph offices before the telephone was popular. Before that people used postal services like the "Royal Mail"
The telegraph was the most technologically advanced communication before the invention of the telephone. Families received death notifications by telegraph during World War I.
telegraph
There were telegraph wires before Titanic sunk. Samuel Morse developed the system in the 1830's but we didn't have the WIRELESS telegraph until Guglielmo Marconi, much later on.
by mail and telegraph. thats right i know stuff
it let you send messages to Friends and family
The Pony Express