Theory Of Diffusion on the telegraph

The diffusion of the telegraph is one of the most interesting things.  The pioneers of the telegraph are the inventors that made the telegraph.  People like Samuel F.B. Morse, Leonard D. Gale, and Alfred Vail.  These people were the ones that first made it and they tried to integrate it into society.

The transition after the launch was when he conducted the first demonstration for the telegraph.  This led to the early adaptors of the telegraph being some of Morses’ friends in the fields of science.  These were what helped push the telegraph to be a much more functioning machine than it is now. 

The uptake of the telegraph is when there was financial support from the U.S. government to begin construction, which the government became the early majority.  Another early majority was railroad companies who could use it to accurately use it to determine train times.  These two helped fund the telegraph to what it was then. 

The maturation of it was when it was able to be transmitted across countries to provide different data to others.  One of the biggest late adopters that used it was many of the press that could now transmit data both states and countries.  Another huge late adopter of the telegraph was many start-up telegraph companies that began as a result.

The saturation of the telegraph is when they established the International Telegraph Union.  The laggards that used the telegraph are the common people, as hooking a telegraph up was very expensive at that time.  The long tail of the telegraph is people who didn’t have electricity, like in places like Central Africa and some parts of the Middle East.  These places didn’t adopt the telegraph until electricity was established. Even then with the new technology that came after the telegraph, these places might have even skipped the telegraph and went straight to the telephone.