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\nBefore phones and the internet, there was the telegraph—a revolutionary invention that let people send messages over long distances using electric signals. Samuel Morse, an artist turned inventor, helped make this possible with his...\nBefore phones and the internet, there was the telegraph—a revolutionary invention that let people send messages over long distances using electric signals. Samuel Morse, an artist turned inventor, helped make this possible with his design of the telegraph machine and the creation of Morse code. With dots and dashes, people could now communicate across countries in seconds. This episode explores how Morse’s invention transformed communication, changed the speed of news and business, and paved the way for the modern information age.\n
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4:15
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6th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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\nBedtime History\n\n
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2025
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English
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bedtime, history, story, educational, information, simple, easy, understandable, electric pulse, send, message, people, machine, words, telegraph, morse, artist, changed, invention, eventually, idea, knew
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