The telegraph first made a transatlantic impact 150 years ago - but yet we forget how important some technologies have been. Share your favourites with us.
It's always easy to imagine that the latest technology is the greatest thing since sliced bread: that instant messages, text messages, the web, email, the internet, telephones, television, radio and so on is each somehow more important than the last development. This week, again, all the cliches are out in force as we hear about the arrival of a certain mobile phone.
But some technologies deserve to stand apart - and one of them, at least, is the telegraph. 2007 marks 150 years since the first great moment in telegraphy hit, when the initial line between Britain and the US was activated on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean.
Of course, like all inventions, the 1857 date is slightly arbitrary: that first transatlantic line didn't last long, but the one which eventually took its place and became commercially successful happened in 1866 (this BBC article goes into some detail) and the "father of the telegraph", Samuel Morse, first got his invention going in 1837.
But some technologies deserve to stand apart - and one of them, at least, is the telegraph. 2007 marks 150 years since the first great moment in telegraphy hit, when the initial line between Britain and the US was activated on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean.
Of course, like all inventions, the 1857 date is slightly arbitrary: that first transatlantic line didn't last long, but the one which eventually took its place and became commercially successful happened in 1866 (this BBC article goes into some detail) and the "father of the telegraph", Samuel Morse, first got his invention going in 1837.
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