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April 27, 1791: Samuel F.B. Morse, ‘American Leonardo,’ Born
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the practical electromagnetic telegraph, is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
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July 27, 1866: Trans-Atlantic Cable Connects Old World to New
1866: After years of planning, development and more than a few snafus, the trans-Atlantic cable is successfully laid and put into operation. Telegraphic communication was in its infancy — it had only...
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June 20, 1840: A Simple Matter of Dots and Dashes
Samuel F.B. Morse receives a U.S. patent for his dot-dash telegraphy signals, known to the world as Morse code.
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Aug. 23, 1899: First Ship-to-Shore Signal to a U.S. Station
"Sherman is sighted." The message is terse but complete. More importantly, it's the first wireless message ever received by a U.S. station from a ship at sea.
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1859: A magnetic explosion on the sun causes bright auroras on Earth and upends the the fledgling telegraph network. On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30...
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Dec. 12, 1896: Marconi Demos Radio — Dec. 12, 1901: Marconi Transmits Across...
On Dec. 12, 1986, Marconi amazed a London assemblage with wireless communication across a room. Five years later, he sent a signal across the Atlantic.
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