Inventors often work to find faster, more efficient ways of completing a task. How did Samuel F.B. Morse use his artistic ingenuity to create a more efficient telegraph machine?

Question

• by using higher-quality wires
• by using more wires and background objects
• by using fewer wires
• by using stronger wires

Answer 1

Samuel F.B. Morse used his artistic ingenuity to create a more efficient telegraph machine by using fewer wires. Morse developed a code that used a combination of dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers, which allowed for the transmission of messages over a single wire. This method significantly increased the efficiency of telegraph communication and became the basis for the modern Morse code.