In fact, the advent of telegraphic communication in the mid-19th century did more to change ... that Samuel Morse's first message on his telegraph line from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, sent ...

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In 1839, a couple of inventors, William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone unveiled to the world their telegraph and It ... humans to the moon a century later. But 19th century entrepreneurs soon ...