Can someone explain to me what a TELEGRAPH is?

Question

IN YOUR OWN WORDS PLEASE.

Is a telegraph like a telephone?

Answer 1

The telegraph was a machine of sorts, used for long distance communication. Messages were transmitted over wires. Wireless telegraphy is used to send messages over radio (radiotelegraphy). Wireless is also known as CW (continuous wave).

Telegrams were sent by operators using the Morse code system, which is a system of dots and dashes that represent letters and numbers. In the early years, people sent telegrams (called "wires" or "cablegrams"), and these were sent via a Western Union terminal.

The only similarity to the telephone is that the telephone uses a wired electrical system

Amateur radio operators still use CW to transmit messages and chat with other operators, aka "hams".

Answer 2

The telegraph was like the internet of that era. It was passed thru pulses of current. (See description below.) Lines like phone lines only it was dot and dashes.
It was a series of dots and dashes that could be read as words if you were able to hear and copy them fast enough. At the very bottom is the link and the actual code. You had to be able to copy and translate so many words per minute in order to be certified.
Have you ever watched a war movie where someone on a shop gives signals with a light? that is morse code.
I have also included a link which gives you a morse code alphabet.
Hope this helps
Good Luck!

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http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelegraph.htm
While a professor of arts and design at New York University in 1835, ***Samuel Morse proved*****
*****that signals could be ******
***transmitted by wire. He used**
** pulses of current to deflect an electromagnet, which moved a marker to produce written codes on a strip of paper - the invention of Morse Code. The following year, the device was modified to emboss the paper with dots and dashes. He gave a public demonstration in 1838, but it was not until five years later that Congress (reflecting public apathy) funded $30,000 to construct an experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore, a distance of 40 miles.

http://morsecode.scphillips.com/alphabet.html
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http://www.mta.ca/~amiller/cs1611/Morse_%20Code.html
International Morse Code Table
A .- 0 -----
B -... 1 .----
C -.-. 2 ..---
D -.. 3 ...--
E . 4 ....-
F .-. 5 .....
G --. 6 -....
H .... 7 --...
I .. 8 ---..
J -.-. 9 ----.
K -.-
L .-..
M --
N -.
O ---
P .--.
Q --.-
R .-.
S ...
T -
U ..-
V ...-
W .--
X -..-
Y -.--
Z --..

Answer 3

telegraph -

term originally applied to any device or system for distant communication by means of visible or audible signals, now commonly restricted to electrically operated devices. Attempts at long-distance communication date back thousands of years (see signaling). As electricity came into greater use, various practical and experimental methods of signaling were tried. A method that came into general use throughout most of the world was based in large part on the work of Samuel F. B. Morse. In Morse telegraphy, an electric circuit is set up, customarily by using only a single overhead wire and employing the earth as the other conductor to complete the circuit. An electromagnet in the receiver is activated by alternately making and breaking the circuit. Reception by sound, with the Morse code signals received as audible clicks, is a swift and reliable method of signaling. The first permanently successful telegraphic cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean was laid in 1866. In 1872, J. B. Stearns of Massachusetts devised a method for "duplex" telegraphy, enabling two messages to be sent over the same wire at the same time. In 1874, Thomas A. Edison invented the "quadruplex" method for the simultaneous transmission of four messages over the same wire. In addition to wires and cables, telegraph messages are now sent by such means as radio waves, microwaves, and communications satellites (see satellite, artificial). Telex is a telegraphy system that transmits and receives messages in printed form. Today telegraphy is less widely used, having been supplanted by the telephone, facsimile machines, and computer electronic mail, among others.

Answer 4

A telegraph in my words is a device used a bit earlier in the 1900s to send messages from one point to a nother/.

Answer 5

a telegraph was used in the times of the nazis. they were lke telephones but they were messages like letters, too