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Significance of The telegraph
quotes from Lincoln
"Hold on with a bull-dog grip, and chew and choke"
A Basic Telegraph
History
"Your long despatch of yesterday just received"
"it makes me doubt whether I am awake or dreaming. I have been struggling for ten days...to get you to go assist Gen. Rosecrans...and yet you steadily move the other way."
-Before the telegraph people used smoke and carrier pigeons to convey messsages.
-The Telegraph was invented by Charles Chappe in 1794
-Harrison Dyar was the first to transmit electrical sparks using chemically treated paper that burned dots & dashes.
-When Henry Clays nomination was telegraphed successfully ,the telegraph became a sensation.
-Soon in 1866 a telegraph line was put in the Atlantic Ocean to communicate with
A common telegraph pole
Movie time=) (sorry, no popcorn)
How the telegraph was used in the war
Lincoln sending a message too the union troops
-The telegraph was never put in the White house. Lincoln had to go to telegraph room in the Department of War building next to the White house.
-President could take command using the telegraph
-300 deaths from operators (capture)
-a disadvantage was that the lines had to be set up in advance to be able to communicate.
-At the battle of Bull run Lincoln had active communication with the battle
Expenses
-Every mile of cable was $150 to put up.
-Workers had to work on and cross tough land. This made the task very challenging.
-20 to 25 cents for every 100 miles, ten words if you wanted to send a telegraph.
Bibliography
-Wheeler, Tom "History News Network." History News Network. HNN, 19 Nov. 2006. Web. 09 Apr. 2013. <http://hnn.us/articles/30860.html>
Significance
-"Telegraph History - A Trip Back in Time." Telegraph History - A Trip Back in Time. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2013. <http://www.nearfieldcommunicationtags.com/telegraph-history.html>.
-It was faster than using messengers
-It was a huge military advantage
-It is a huge foundation for modern day inventions
-Taylor, Howard. "Abraham Lincoln and the Telegraph." Abraham Lincoln and the Telegraph. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2013. <http://www.alincolnlearning.us/Civilwartelegraphing.html>.
Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Centuryʼs On-line Pioneers. New York: Walker and, 1998. Print.
Stanchak, John E. Eyewitness Books Civil War. London: Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2000. Print.
-Wheeler, Tom. "What Abraham Lincoln Taught Me about Email—Thoughts on How Lincoln's Electric Communications Came to Affect MineBy Tom Wheeler." Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails. N.p., 2006. Web. 29 Apr. 2013. <http://www.mrlincolnstmails.com/emails.php>.