The Estonian diplomat Pavel Schilling had demonstrated the feasibility of an electrical telegraph a few years earlier, and French engineers had operated light signaling systems since the late eighteenth century. The appeal of sending information across long distances is obvious and, of course, was not new even in Morse's time. By doing so, he ushered in the era of the electrical and electronic information age. In 1844, he demonstrated the feasibility of his invention to the world, by sending the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington, DC to his colleague Alfred Vail in Baltimore.
The technology had lasted for almost two centuries, since the American artist and inventor Samuel Morse in 1837 first experimented successfully with an electrical telegraph. On July 15, 2013, the last telegram was sent by the only remaining telegraph office in the world, the Central Telegraph Office in Janpath, India.
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