North Central Florida Treasures: Antique Telegraph
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - This week on North Central Florida Treasures Art Adkins owner of Antique City Mall in Micanopy shares with us a piece of technology used to communicate with people from a far, the telegraph.
Developed in the decade transition of the 1830′s and 1840′s the telegraph revolutionized long distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations, developed by Samuel Morse and others the " Morse code " assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the alphabet.
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In 1844, Samuel Morse had sent his first telegraph message, by 1866 a telegraph line was laid across the Atlantic Ocean from the U.S to Europe. Telephones, fax machine and the internet would make the telegraph out of business, this device in a retail setting would be worth $150.
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