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January 11, 1838, First public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail.

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  Could it be called the first ever “text message”? 
 

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IT&T International Telegraph and Telephone also owned this company, Mackay Radio. From this location not far from where I live was a major communications station sending many telegraph messages during World War Two and operating until sometime in the late seventies. I remember the many super tall telephone poles that were still standing up until the early nineties on this property that was a couple hundred acres. The buildings were torn down in the early eighties. As kids we would climb up onto the roof of one of the buildings to see the ocean approximately 5 miles away. It was before my time but as a kid I remember the old timers talking about the important roll it played in its heyday. Now because of its high elevation and water views it is mostly high end homes. I’m not sure that date of this photo, it belonged to my cousin and I thought it was so cool that I took a picture of it!