January 6th

What:
Samuel Morse demonstrates Morse Code

Where:
Speedwel Iron Works, Morristown, New Jersey, USA

Year:
1838

Inofrmation and Signifigance
This demonstration was the first act of publicizing Morris Code and the devices involoved. Morris Code would later become extremely significant and would be used throughout modern history. It would be used to send orders to generals during the American Civil War from President Lincoln. Morse Code would be used to send messages to soldiers on the Western Front to tell them of the armistice that ended World War I. Morse would be a system, which would send enormous amounts of information to people around the world for more than a century afterwards.