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In what year were the first telegraph wires strung and between what two cities?

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For the first time, messages could be trans- mitted to people over great distances. In 1844, the first telegraph wires were strung between Washington, DC, and Baltimore, Maryland, carrying the famous message of Samuel Morse, “What hath God wrought?”

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