Telegraph

Pony Express

• a mail service that was able to deliver mail to California in only 8-10 days

• to go across the continent

• Places where stagecoaches would stop to get supplies

• a large closed horse-drawn carriage used to carry passengers and mail

Transcontinental

• to go across the continent

• rectangle-shaped, leather, blanket-like bag that fit over a saddle and was used to hold mail

• Device that uses electricity to send code messages through wires over a distance.

• a series of dots and dashes used to send messages by electricity over a telegraph machine

Telegraph

• Device that uses electricity to send code messages through wires over a distance.

• to go across the continent

• a mail service that was able to deliver mail to California in only 8-10 days

• Places where stagecoaches would stop to get supplies

Morse Code

• a series of dots and dashes used to send messages by electricity over a telegraph machine

• a large closed horse-drawn carriage used to carry passengers and mail

• rectangle-shaped, leather, blanket-like bag that fit over a saddle and was used to hold mail

• Device that uses electricity to send code messages through wires over a distance.

Western Union Company

• owned and controlled the telegraph line

• worked to bring people and mail between St Louis and San Francisco

• Took over Butterfield Overland Company

• a series of dots and dashes used to send messages by electricity over a telegraph machine

What device did the telephone replace?

• The burger

• The acidic solution

• The cell phone

• The telegraph

Telegraph

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Of the four inventions listed, why are the telegraph and typewriter no longer things that people use?

• they were both expensive and dangerous to use
• the only people who knew how they worked died a long time ago
• other inventions such as the telephone and computers have made it useless
• they both required several people to operate 

 The code used in telegraphs that has dashes and dots is called...

• Morse Code
• Samuel Code
• Sholes Code
• Bell Code

Before Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, the fastest way to send messages was by ____________. 

• car
• airplane
• horseback
• bicycle