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a thin metal thread that carries everything from electricity to gossip to fortunes.
first telegraphMorse's 1844 line spelled What hath God wrought
copper championConducts electricity better than almost any affordable metal
slang originSending money by wire dates to telegraph banking
strength trickDrawing wire thin makes the metal harder and stronger
barbed historyInvented in 1874, it fenced the American West