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What's not familiar about this story is its era. The Story of the Telegraph Today, the telegraph seems like a quaint artifact of a forgotten time. But its influence on the society and culture of the mid-1800s may have been even more significant than the Internet is on our lives today. Various forms of telegraphy had been in use since the mid-eighteenth century. But it wasn't until Samuel Morse mastered both the challenges of electrical transmission of messages and created his famous code of dots and dashes that telegraphy really began to explode.