The Telegraph was the first real way to communicate through long distances. Developed through the 1830's and 1840's Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail created this way of communication and on May 24, 1844 the first transmission went through saying "What Hath God Wrought", this signal went from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. This was revolutionary using cables to send and receive long distant Messages. It didn't take long to get the wireless telegraph and lay cables from America to Europe making it possible for people to communicate on different sides of the Atlantic as well as in the middle of the ocean.
The way that This communication worked was with a code created by Samuel Morse that would be called Morse Code. This code used dots and dashes to translate into letters of the Alphabet making it easy to send codes back and forth that others couldn't understand. This invention was the greatest discovery in Military communication basically until the telephone was created. The code that most people remember is ...---... which means S.O.S or help. I don't know if this was originally created as a military device but the Military defiantly had a greater use for this than any other random citizen would. The Telegraph may not be used today but it is still a huge part of history that lead to other incredible creations nothing will ever change that fact.
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