The first official telegraph message ever sent consisted of these words.
"Today the world is a little smaller."
"Congratulations Mr. Morse."
"What hath God wrought!"
"Mr. Morse, are you there?"
"Watson, come here. I need you."
The content of the first official telegraph message ever sent, on May 24, 1844, was "What hath God wrought!" Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, sent the first telegraph message from the U.S. Supreme Court room in Washington, D.C., to his partner in Baltimore, Alfred Vail, who invented the telegraphic printing technique in 1844. Congress had appropriated $30,000 for the experimental line built by Ezra Cornell between Washington and Baltimore.