The Great-Granddaddy of Emailing
This relic from our collection is a Morse, or electric, telegraph. Before the advent of the telegraph, the most useful means of long-distance communication were smoke signals or semaphore. With advances in the science of electricity and magnetism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many people experimented with using electricity to transmit communications. Some successful… Read More »The Great-Granddaddy of Emailing