Instantaneous electrical communication seemed so miraculous that Samuel Morse's first message on his telegraph line from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, sent on May 24, 1844, asked, "What Hath God ...

claiming that " it cannot be refuted tha1 Dr. C. T. Jackson, of Boston, is the first inventor of the electric telegraph." He refers to the fact that Dr. Jackson and Professor Morse were together ...

The telegraph was developed by Samuel B. Morse in 1832. Other inventors experimented with sending messages using electrical signals, but his was the first to successfully combine a simple code ...

expresses itself thus:— " No doubt the discovery of the principles upon which the electric telegraph system is founded does not belong to M. Morse, but he was the first to transfer that ...