Another anniversary!! 🙂 I looked up some of the history of the telegraph. English and Russian inventors developed early versions in the 1830s. Samuel F. B. Morse developed his namesake Morse Code and in 1844 sent the first message, "What hath God wrought?" (which, I learned, is from Numbers 23:23, meaning "Look what God has done!"). I read somewhere that the telegraph was important on a limited basis in the Mexican War. THEN, 164 years ago today, October 24, 1861, workers of the Western Union Telegraph Company linked the eastern and western telegraph networks of the U.S. at Salt Lake City. Thus, they completed the first transcontinental line in the U.S. President Lincoln received the first telegraph message on this unified system. As this article discusses, Lincoln not only used the technology for the war effort but often stayed in the telegraph room during crucial times. There is a great scene in the 'Lincoln" movie where Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) starts quizzing the two young telegraph operators (played by Adam Driver and Drew Sease) about Euclid, and they're like, "What's he talking about? This is awkward" LOL.)
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