Did you know that the telegraph was invented out of grief? Samuel Morse was hired to travel to paint a portrait. While e was away, his wife suddenly fell ill. It took days for the news of her illness to reach him, and she was already dead and buried by the time he arrived home. he was so upset, he quit his art career and focused on developing a faster was to communicate. His passion lead him to create a single wire machine that transmitted text information as a series of on/off tones, lights or clicks that could be understood by a skilled listener or observer. This is now known as Morse code.
