Electric Telegraph

Telegraph vs. Internet

3 similarities:

1. One of the tasks of a electromagnetic telegraph was to  transfer text messages from person to person. This task is similar 
2. Both the internet and telegraph require sending and recieveing  electronic information/data.
3. The telegraph and internet allowed us to keep up with important social and person communication. These events include: political, commercial, or financial information that enhanced the flow of living.

3 differences:

1. Unlike the electrical telegraph, the internet was not the first form of electrical telecommunication. It was composed from several different centuries worth of telecommunication inventions.
2. The internet is capable of voice, video, graph, text, and several other features. Unlike the telegraph which was only limited to coded texts between people.
3. Security is a big difference between the internet and telegraph. The telegraph was unsecured and unreliable. A big problem was other parties could easily hack the codes of people were sending. This would be unreliable during wars when signals were easily intersected and important information was leaked.

Interesting findings of the telegraph:

I thought it was interesting that the telegraph was the first nationwide communication system. I thought it was interesting that the progress was a twelve year process that developed into such a developed idea.