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On this day in 1844, Samuel Morse first successfully transmitted word of a House vote to a newspaper via telegraph.
Samuel F.B. Morse patented an electric telegraph machine on June 20th 1840. In 1844, he gave a public demonstration of the telegraph by sending four words (“What hath God wrought?”) from the U ...
The Milwaukee-Madison chapter of the Morse Telegraph Club celebrated the 227birthday of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, on April 27, at Spring Brook Golf Club in the Dells. The ...
In 1853, the Supreme Court gave Samuel Morse some bad news. In O'Reilly v. Morse, the justices approved the inventor's patent for part of the telegraph that delivered the Morse code message "What ...
On this day in 1844, Morse demonstrated the telegraph system for the first time to members of Congress and other dignitaries.
The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...
Did Morse himself claim to be the inventor of the telegraph? When introduced at the Austrian Court the Emperor asked: "Are you the man that invented the telegraph?" ...
We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren&#8… ...
When the first radios and telegraph lines were put into service, essentially the only way to communicate was to use Morse code. The first transmitters had extremely inefficient designs by today&#82… ...
When Samuel F. B. Morse wasn't creating Morse code, inventing the telegraph, or painting portraits, he was relaxing on the grounds of his Locust Grove Estate in upstate New York. Located about 80 ...