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.
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The computer is successfully outdated the electric telegraph that many people didn't know. An electric telegraph is one of communication devices that were invented in 1794 by Claude Chappe but the first successful telegraph is on 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors.
Electric Telegraph Company ended in 1855.
Electric Telegraph Company was created in 1846.
In 1828, the first electric telegraph was invented by Harrison Dyar who sent electrical sparks through chemically treated paper tape to burn dots and dashes.
Samuel Morse invented the electric telegraph.
The first of the great uses for electricity, began with the telegraph invented by Samuel Morse around 1840.
Tesla's first four patents are:334823 Commutator for dynamo electric machines335786 Electric arc lamp335787 Electric arc lamp336961 Regulator for dynamo electric machinesEdison's first four patents are:90646 Electrographic vote recorder91527 Printing telegraphs96567 Printing telegraph apparatus96681 Automatic electrical switch for telegraph apparatus
well the guy that made this thingy wanted to build something so he did and that is why there was an electric telegraph invented.
The (electric) telegraph was more or less invented in 1837 by Cooke and Wheatstone in England. It was 1838 that Samuel Morse first demonstrated his telegraph.
The non-electric telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe in 1794. This system was visual and used semaphore, a flag-based alphabet, and depended on a line of sight for communication. The optical telegraph was replaced by the electric telegraph.
The telephone was first patented in 1870 by Alexander Graham Bell in 1870, even though he was not the only one to want to patent it, another person tried to but Alexander was first in the processI'm sorry but I cannot remember the other person :(