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1800 |
Italian Alessandro Volta invents the battery |
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1816 |
Francis Ronalds demonstrates the first practical electric telegraph (no patent granted) |
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1830s |
Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail invent Morse code |
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1837 |
American Samuel Finley Breese Morse patents the electromagnetic telegraph |
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1837 |
British team of Dr. William Fothergill Cooke and Professor Charles Wheatstone patent the first electric telegraph |
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1844 |
Samuel Morse transmits first message: What hath God wrought! |
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1844 |
Telegraph line from Baltimore to Washington completed |
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1846 |
Telegraph line from Boston to New York completed |
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1847 |
Telegraph line from Montreal to New York completed |
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1851 |
Adoption of International Morse Code |
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1852 |
Frederick Newton Gisborne lays the first underwater telegraph cable in North America linking New Brunswick and PEI |
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1861 |
Telegraph line from east to west coast of US completed by Western Union Telegraph Company |
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1866 |
Telegraph line completed in the Atlantic connecting Newfoundland and Valencia, Ireland |
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1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone |
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1895 |
Italian Guglielmo Marconi transmits first wireless message using Morse code |
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1900 |
Canadian Reginald Fessenden transmits voice by radio |