Inventors often work to find fast, more efficient ways of completing a task. How did Samuel F.B. Morse use his artistic ingenuity to create a more efficient telegraph machine?

Question

Inventors often work to find fast, more efficient ways of completing a task. How did Samuel F.B. Morse use his artistic ingenuity to create a more efficient telegraph machine?

a. by using higher-quality wires
b. by using more wires and background objects
c. by using fewer wires
d. by using stronger wires

Answer 1

c. by using fewer wires

Samuel F.B. Morse utilized his artistic skills to create Morse code, a system of dots and dashes that represented letters of the alphabet and numbers. By condensing the information down to a simpler system of communication, Morse was able to transmit messages over long distances more quickly and efficiently using fewer wires than other telegraph machines at the time.