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Is It Telegram or Telegraph?

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Is It Telegram or Telegraph?

The word telegraph alone now generally refers to an electrical telegraph

electrical telegraph
Samuel Morse independently developed and patented a recording electric telegraph in 1837. Morse's assistant Alfred Vail developed an instrument that was called the register for recording the received messages. It embossed dots and dashes on a moving paper tape by a stylus which was operated by an electromagnet.
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. ... A telegraph message sent by an electrical telegraph operator or telegrapher using Morse code (or a printing telegraph operator using plain text) was known as a telegram.

How do you write a telegram?

Always write the telegram in capital letters. To make a telegram short and terse words like Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs are included in the message and grammatical words like Articles, Prepositions etc are omitted as they do not carry meaning in themselves.

What is a telegram now?

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