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1844Morse sends "What hath God wrought"First long-distance telegraph message on the Washington-Baltimore lineSamuel Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought" from the US Capitol in Washington to Alfred Vail in Baltimore. The demonstration proved that electric telegraphy worked over long distances. Within a few years, telegraph networks were spreading across the United States and Europe.