The Telegraph (blog 2)

In the last class discussion, (February 24^th) we spoke about the telegraph. This dates back all the way to the early 19 Century. I personally feel that without the telegraph, we wouldn't have the advance technology we have today, and to communicate efficiently. The telegraph was the starting point for the advancement of different technology Mr. Bordino stated that the telegraph, (for the first time in history), allowed messages to be done "across space", in other words, it breaks down special borders. Before the invention of the telegraph, people had to physically cross a "space" to deliver a message to a person(s). This created different geographic area to connect to make it easier to communicate. This made the world a- lot smaller again, in regards to communication. This also established the idea of time zones. I found the telegraph very interesting I had to do extra research. According to "personal.edu", the electrical telegraph was invented by Samuel Soemmering in 1909. They used Gold wires in water sending messages around two thousand feet away. I also found it interesting that in the Greek language, telegraph can be broken into words, Tele and grapheintele. In the article it states that the word "tele" means far and "graphein" means to write. I also found it interesting that the “simple forms of telegraphy were mostly smoke and lights beacons. I personally didn't know what “beacon” meant, so I searched on Wikipedia to get the definition. According to, Wikipedia.com, “beacon means a beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location”.