In an age of telephones, computers and email, it is difficult for many of us to imagine a time when we couldn't talk to people miles and miles away for a moment. Indeed, there was a time when our epiphanies were not instantly transferable, and often had to stay in our heads for a while until we could write them down on paper and wait days, weeks, even months for them to come. taken away on a horse. in an envelope. Morse code and the electric telegraph were the first time in inhuman history that communication was sent via electrical means, and would shape the progress of communication for the rest of history to come. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on April 27, 1791. He showed an interest in art as a child and graduated from Yale College in 1810. His father was initially against his interest in art, but reversed his decision and in 1811 he allowed him to go to England to pursue it, learning the sub-artist Benjamin West. When he returned to America, he made a living as a portrait painter in Boston, Massachusetts, and became president of the National Academy of Design. However, several hard blows were dealt when his wife and both parents died within three years. Europe, and when he returned, everything changed(Encyclopedia of World Biography.)On his journey back to America, he met an eccentric man called CharlesThomas Jackson, with whom he discussed electromagnetism. Morse was assured by him that the electrical impulse could indeed travel through a very long wire, and this gave him pause: "I see no reason why intelligence could not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity to... the center of the paper ... ...shrank in on itself and became several sizes smaller, like the Grinch's heart in reverse. Morse wrote of it in a letter in 1838: "This mode of instantaneous communication must inevitably become an instrument of immense power. , to be wielded for better or for worse". , as it will be properly or improperly addressed." And so it was, evolving and also transforming into the internet, which allows the instant sharing of information all over the world. In fact, it's used for both good and bad and that vague, irritating middle ground where people incessantly post photos of their food and share their every thought in status updates. Instant information transfer is an idea that had a huge impact on the world then and continues to impact us today, and shapes the way our world works. In the last century, the telegraph was crucial. at any distance