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Samuel Morse and his telegraph invention...
Samuel Morse and his telegraph invention...
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December 24, 1842
NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Maryland, December 24, 1842
* Samuel Morse
* Telegraph
* Washington D.C. demonstrations
The bottom of the back page has a report headed: "Electro Magnetic Telegraph" which includes:
* ...states that S. F. B. Morse, of New York, is now exhibiting to committees appointed by congress to examine the subject, his invention by which two persons, however distant, may converse with each other. There is every probability that he will be afforded the means of fully testing its practicability. It would be a wonderful improvement indeed, if effected
And what an understatement that was. This was the beginning of distant communication which continues to evolve to this day.
.Other articles of interest within this issue include those headed: "Appointments by the President" "Correspondence On the African Slave Trade" "Railroads and Canals" "Report of the Secretary of the Navy" & "The United States Brig Somers" among others.
Complete in 16 pages, 8 1/2 by 12 inches, very nice condition.
wikipedia notes: Morse made one last trip to Washington, D.C., in December 1842, stringing "wires between two committee rooms in the Capitol, and sent messages back and forth" to demonstrate his telegraph system.³ Congress appropriated $30,000 in 1843 for construction of an experimental 38-mile (61 km) telegraph line between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, along the right-of-way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.[6] An impressive demonstration occurred on May 1, 1844, when news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for U.S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.[6]. On May 24, 1844, the line was officially opened as Morse sent his famous words "What hath God wrought" from the B&O's Baltimore station to the Capitol Building along the wire.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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