The Talking Wire
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Hint – The above is a Morse Code Message – can you read it?
New technology made distances shorter. The telegraph made
communication instantaneous. Before it, the pony express took many days to pass
on the same information.
The United States
Government offered a subsidy of $40,000 a year for up to ten years to build a transcontinental
telegraph line. This line would connect the populated east with the populated
west by crossing the Great Plains and parts of Americas, Mountain West. The new
line was built from Omaha in the east to Carson City and Salt Lake City in the
west.
Edward Creighton finished it in 1861, mostly following the Oregon
Trail. Many of the stations set up as Pony Express stops became the new
Telegraph stations of the west.
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Old Telephone Pole, Don't See Many of These Anymore |
Did it change the west? The Pony Express went out of business
two days after the first messages were sent along the new line. It lasted until
1869, when it was replaced by a new multi-line telegraph that followed the tracks of the Transcontinental Railroad, it lasted up to the time of the telephone,
The Message at the top - Thanks
for reading, have a great day.
I was unable to find any historical documentation that proved the
Indians called the telegraph the, “talking
wires,” may be a Hollywood thing but I always enjoyed that story.
Did you know there is a Morse Code Translator
online? Try it, great fun.
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These Guys Were Tough on Early Telegraph Poles |
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