First long distance electric telegraph line built by Samuel Morse

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The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

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Date of occurrence 1843

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The invention of the electric telegraph line was a long and complex process involving a number of inventors, but in 1844 Samuel Finley Breese Morse (27th April, 1791 - 2nd April, 1872) succeeded in building the first long distance telegraph line, which was 61 km in length and travelled between Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland.

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