American inventor Samuel Morse transmitted the first long-distance telegraph from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore: “What hath ...

Since then, the way we communicate has evolved in leaps and bounds to the point where the device we (sometimes) use for phone ...

It was “What hath God wrought,” the very same quote that Samuel Morse had used for the world’s first long-distance telegraph transmission back in 1844. Here’s the story of how Morse chose ...

In 1844, Congress awarded Morse $30,000 to build ... but that still wasn’t very practical. Samuel Morse, an artist by trade, was convinced he could reduce the number of wires to one.