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which invention allowed people to send written messages very quickly over long distances for the first time
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The electric telegraph (using Morse code).
Invented and developed in the 1830s–1840s (Samuel Morse’s system famously opened the first long-distance line in 1844), it let written messages be encoded as electrical pulses and sent almost instantly over wires. (Before that, optical semaphore telegraphs — visual tower systems like Claude Chappe’s in the 1790s — transmitted messages quickly but required line-of-sight and daylight.)
Invented and developed in the 1830s–1840s (Samuel Morse’s system famously opened the first long-distance line in 1844), it let written messages be encoded as electrical pulses and sent almost instantly over wires. (Before that, optical semaphore telegraphs — visual tower systems like Claude Chappe’s in the 1790s — transmitted messages quickly but required line-of-sight and daylight.)
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