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b'This week, we discuss the development and impact of the electric telegraph \\u2013 a new means of communicating through metal wires at the end of the First Industrial Revolution. This episode covers:
The possibilities made by Alessandro Volta\\u2019s battery
The early telegraph systems made by von S\\xf6mmerring, Ronalds, and Schilling
The first functional telegraph made by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone
The life of Samuel Morse and his more successful telegraph
The economic and political impacts of the telegraph in the 19th Century
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