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Nobody discovered the telegraph, they invented it.

The inventor of the telegraph was Samuel Morse, who first made it in 1837. This device he invented was very small, and was used for communication. With this people were able to spread news faster and hold long distance relationships/communications with someone in a different city. They would transmit the message as a series of dots and dashes called "Morse Code."

For example, the Morse Code for "SOS" would translate as: "Dot, dot, dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot" (... _ _ _ ...)

A more complex sentence would appear as the following:

It is going to rain tomorrow, shall we cancel the meeting?

.. _ .. ... __. ___ .. _. __. _ _ _ _ ._. ._. .. _. _ _ (continuation for a few lines longer)

If there was a break in the sentence it would look like the following:

How are you? I'm fine. _.. _ _ _./ _ _ _ ._. .._

People were trained to decode these messages quickly in case of urgency.

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