The Semaphore Telegraph

Before 1792 the fastest messages could travel was about ten miles an hour. Technically you could go faster than that but you would probably take longer over all because the horse would have to take a lot of breaks and if you pushed it it may die and then you would have to go on foot which would take even longer. Most people couldn’t even send mail because it was to expensive. A man recognized the fact that the mail was very slow so he designed a new way to send messages that was quicker than a rider on a horse and that new way was the semaphore telegraph. The semaphore telegraph was a bunch of towers that had little arms to make signs at the other towers and this way was much faster.