Telegraph systems

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Vem26 G. S. Vernam Cipher Printing Telegraph Systems for Secret Wire and Radio Telegraphic Communications Journal American Institute of Electrical Engineers XLV (1926) 109-115. 

In September, 1859, one of the most powerful geomagnetic storms in history knocked out telegraph systems around the world. 

Electrical telegraph (Samuel F. B. Morse) Others had already built telegraph systems, but Morse s system was superior and soon replaced all others. 

Wireless telegraph system (Gugliehno Marconi) Marconi is the first to send wireless signals across the Atlantic Ocean, inaugurating a new era of telecommunications. 

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The era of electrical communication started in 1837 with the invention of the telegraph by Samuel F. B. Morse. The telegraph system used the Morse code, which represents letters and numbers by a coded combination of dots and dashes. The encoded symbols were conveyed by sending short and long pulses of electricity over a copper wire at a rate of tens of pulses per second. The telegraph and Morse code dramatically improved the speed, quahty, and information capacity of transmission, although well-trained and skilled operators were required. 

In addition to the telegraph, the invention of electricity resulted in the development of other communications systems that paved the way for the modern communications infrastructure. The telegraph was followed by the laying of the transatlantic cable (18.S8), the invention of the telephone (1876), Marconi s wireless telegraph (1897), television (1927), and satellite communications (1957). Although early implementation of each technology was restricted to a minimum level of practical communication, each technology eventually evolved into a mass market for use by businesses and residential customers. 

John Daniell (English physicist) developed the first modern storage cell based on Faraday s principles. This consists of a large glass jar with a copper star-shaped electrode in the bottom and a zinc "crow s foot" shaped electrode suspended near the top. The bottom of the jar was filled with a concentrated copper sulfate solution. On top of this was poured dilute sulfuric acid, whose lower density kept it on top. This was the first practical battery to find wide use to power telegraphs and railway signaling systems and home doorbells. 

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