Morse telegraph
1844 · Event
Samuel Morse's electrical telegraph, with code, transforms long-distance communication from days to seconds.
On these timelines: Science & Technology, Industrial Revolution, Master, Arts and Thoughts, USA
More from Science & Technology
- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- First electronic computer (ENIAC) (1946)
Around 1844
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)