Can someone explain to me what a TELEGRAPH is?

Question

IN YOUR OWN WORDS PLEASE.

Is a telegraph like a telephone?

Answer 1

No offense, but you must be REALLY young.
A telegraph was the first long-distance communications device. It consisted of two electrically-powered "keys," a sender, and an annunciator. The sender was basically a button on a 3-inch long handle that was on a spring to stay up off the base. When you pushed it down with your finger, it closed the electric circuit, and the annunciator device on the other end made a kind-of buzz or click sound, that sustained as long as the key on the sending side was held down. In later years it became an electronic tone, but the principle was the same.
You communicated by using a series of short or long signals, in patterns that corresponded to letters of the alphabet. In this way, people could text-message each other over wires crossing the country. It's inventor was a man named Samuel Morse, and his method is famous, though obscure today, as Morse Code.
People who did this had the code memorized, but they still had to hand-write the message down as they heard it come through.
The most well-known Morse Code phrase (which consists of much shorthand, as do most Morse phrases) is S-O-S, which means "Save Our Ship." It's code is dot-dot-dot-DASH-DASH-DASH-dot-dot-dot, or more properly: did-did-diii-diii-diii-did-did-did. The first S-O-S in history was reportedly sent by John Phillips aboard the Titanic as she was sinking in 1912.

Eventually, a company named Western Union would become the largest telegraph company in the world. Telegraph messages came to be called a "wire." As in, "Wire me some money."

And, yes, these are my own words. No Wikipedia. I'm a journalist. Guess I just got caught-up in the answer.

Answer 2

It isnt like a telephone. A telegraph is sent information to a receiver and prints out the information sent.

Answer 3

NO! a telepraph can be two things....

1. It is a note/letter that is hand delivered.

2. A telepraph pole is what connects phone wires, they are huge brown wooden poles that look like big tree stumps.