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In what year were telegrams invented?
Samuel Thomas von Sömmering constructed his electrochemical telegraph in 1809. Also as one of the first, an electromagnetic telegraph was created by Baron Schilling in 1832. Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber built and first used for regular communication the electromagnetic telegraph in 1833 in Göttingen. The first commercial electrical telegraph was constructed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and entered use on the Great Western Railway in Britain. It ran for 13 miles (21 km) from Paddington station to West Drayton and came into operation on 9 April 1839. An electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel F. B. Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signaling alphabet with Morse. America's first telegram was sent by Morse on January 6, 1838, across two miles (3 km) of wire at Speedwell Ironworks near Morristown, New Jersey. The message read "A patient waiter is no loser." On May 24, 1844, he sent the message "What hath God wrought" (quoting Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol in Washington to the old Mt. Clare Depot in Baltimore
Who invented the world's first banking system?
The Islamic Empire, they also invented checks. _____ The previous answer is not true. By the time of Hammurabi's Code, dating to around 1760 BCE, banking was well enough developed to justify laws governing banking operations. This predates the Islamic empire by almost 2400 years.
What did people use to communicate in olden days?
It depends on what you mean by 'olden days' - ancient peoples had to have most messages hand-delivered, often over hundreds of miles. In some cultures, carrier pigeons would be used to send and receive letters. In this county, native Americans might use smoke signals in a way similar to Morse code; later there was the Pony Express, then the teletype (telegram); and finally modern phones and digital communication - just like this!
The napoleonic code formed the basis of the civil code for what modern country?
France
What was the first known system of written law?
Code of Hammurabi was the first known written law.
