Samuel Morse and the Telegraph:

Inventors and Inventors Learning Activity

Authoring, Researching, Reporting and Other Work
Inventions and Inventing:  Samuel Morse and the Telegraph
A Project for Creative Minds to "Be Used"
by Howard Taylor, A Learning-On Line Activity

To be used with the Inventions and Inventors Learning Activity
 
INVENTIONS & INVENTING: GOALS
  • Adventures in using brainpower and creativeness to provide something to help or entertain people
  • Learning about Patent/Copyright procedures of the U.S. Government
  • Learning about great inventions and inventors

A Learning Activity to provide great experiences to improve
Science, Math, Reading, Writing and Art learning.
YOUR JOBS:   1) Complete a data sheet on five famous inventors and inventions.   2) Read the informational links about Samuel Morse.  Work together with your class group and make two sending and receiver telegraph Sets.  Follow the directions in the "Making a Telegraph Set" link.  Wire each end of the room with each component at each end so that messages using Morse Code can be received and sent.  Memorize the Morse Code and use it to write short messages to each room end.  HAVE FUN!
Go Through each of these Links before you make the telegraph Set
I.      A Little bit about
"How Electricity Works" 
IV.     The Morse Code
II.    Timeline
about Samuel Morse
 V.     Morse Code Activity Page
III.     Samuel F. Morse Papers
from the Library of Congress		 VI.       Making a telegraph Set
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