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.
While most textbooks credit Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872) with inventing the telegraph in the late 1830s, 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.Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Inventor_of_the_Telegraph#ixzz1LRDiG178
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 - April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and Morse Code. (For more information on Samuel Morse, see the website listed below) SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_F._B._Morse
what did the first telegraph look like?
Welll.... the telegraph replaced the pony express then the telephone replaced the telegraph. and now a days texting has replaced the telephone.
devices for telegraph he made inprovments in tecnology he invented cuplox telegraph electric pen for telegraph inprovments in telephone tec
inventor of Telegraph
trhyt
Yes, it was not Thomas Edison he invented the light bulb and not the telegraph.
marconi
Marconi
granvill t woods was the original inventor
The practical electric telegraph system was invented by Samuel Morse, also the inventor of the Morse code.
Samuel Morse
Not any more. The inventor of the telegraph died in 1872.
Granville T. Woods
well the guy that made this thingy wanted to build something so he did and that is why there was an electric telegraph invented.
Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, famously quoted the biblical phrase "What hath God wrought" when he sent the first telegraph message in 1844.