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You could definitely send telegraphs overseas, and sending or receiving them required no training.

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and sending or receiving them required no training.

If you mean paying someone to send them, then sure. But it required learning Morse code, and learning to use a keyer.

You couldn’t send them overseas until after the invention of radio. Before that the signal traveled along a wire they laid the transatlantic cable.

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The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid down in 1854 and radio waves weren’t even theorized until 1873… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio#History

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I had no idea radio was such a recent discovery.

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Whoops!

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The only way you were keying in a telegram yourself is if you worked for them.

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