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1800<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Italian Alessandro Volta invents the battery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1816<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Francis Ronalds demonstrates the first practical electric telegraph (no patent granted)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1830s<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail invent Morse code<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1837<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

American Samuel Finley Breese Morse patents the electromagnetic telegraph<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1837<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

British team of Dr. William Fothergill Cooke and Professor Charles Wheatstone patent the first electric telegraph<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1844<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Samuel Morse transmits first message: What hath God wrought!<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1844<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Telegraph line from Baltimore to Washington completed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1846<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Telegraph line from Boston to New York completed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1847<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Telegraph line from Montreal to New York completed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1851<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Adoption of International Morse Code<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1852<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Frederick Newton Gisborne lays the first underwater telegraph cable in North America linking New Brunswick and PEI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1861<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Telegraph line from east to west coast of US completed by Western Union Telegraph Company<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1866<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Telegraph line completed in the Atlantic connecting Newfoundland and Valencia, Ireland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1876<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1895<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Italian Guglielmo Marconi transmits first wireless message using Morse code<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1900<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Canadian Reginald Fessenden transmits voice by radio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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