The invention of the electric telegraph in the 1830s sparked a revolution.

十九世纪三十年代电报的发明引发一场革新。

Samuel Morse, the namesake of Morse code, invented an electric telegraph system in the early 1830s.

萨缪尔•摩尔斯，莫尔斯电码的命名者，在19世纪30年代早期发明了一种电报系统。

An almost spiritual medium, like the electric telegraph, should be consecrated to high, deep, joyful, and holy missions.

近乎属灵的媒介， 如电报，应该献身于崇高、深刻、喜乐和圣洁的使命。

The electric telegraph was lauded in the 1850s as a herald of world peace, as were aircraft in the 1900s; pundits in the 1990s said the internet would reduce inequality and eradicate nationalism.

19世纪50年代，电报被誉为世界和平的先驱，20世纪初，飞机也是如此;上世纪90年代的权威人士说，互联网将减少不平等，根除民族主义。

Between 1832 and 1837 he developed a working model of an electric telegraph, using crude materials such as a home-made battery and old clock-work gears.

在1832年至1837年间，他使用自制电池和旧钟表齿轮等原始材料开发了电报的工作模型。

The military used Morse code with both sound  and light to relay messages a short distance, and the electric telegraph was in widespread  use during the American Civil War.

军方使用具有声光的摩尔斯电码在短距离内传递信息，电报在美国内战期间得到广泛使用。

That year, Morse was traveling to the United States from Europe on a ship, when he overheard a conversation about electromagnetism that inspired his idea for an electric telegraph.

那一年，莫尔斯乘船从欧洲前往美国，当时他无意中听到一段关于电磁学的谈话，这激发了他发明电报的想法。

Before the boy was six years old, he had seen four impossibilities made actual — the ocean-steamer, the railway, the electric telegraph, and the Daguerreotype; nor could he ever learn which of the four had most hurried others to come.

在这个男孩六岁之前，他亲眼目睹了四种不可能成为现实——远洋轮船、铁路、电报和银版照相术；他也永远无法得知这四个人中的哪一个最催促其他人前来。