In the beginning of the industrial age, cities were expanding and
railroads were
growing, but people couldn't get messages or news to other people fast
enough.
There were some electrical communications, but all were too slow or too
complicated. Railroads were growing too fast. They were connecting
cities to
each other, and there needed to be some form of communication that was
fast
enough to past messages around. That was what Morse system of
telegraphy did.
The Morse Code system was one of the earliest forms of communication. Morse Code has been an significant means of communication which led to the first long distance; the instant communication system the world has known.
The telegraph was the first device to send messages using electricity. Telegraph messages were sent by tapping out a special code for each letter of the message with a telegraph key. The telegraph changed the dots and dashes of this code into electrical impulses and transmitted them over the wires. The receiver on the other end of the wire converted the electrical impulses to dots and dashes on a paper tape. Later, this code became universal and is now known as Morse Code.
"What hath God wrought?" was the first message sent using the Morse Code between Baltimore and Washington.
Two notable tenants of the B.F. Hastings Building (located in Old Sacramento) were the Alta California Telegraph Company and the California State Telegraph Company, the state's first two communication enterprises.