The great portrait painter and inventor who will forever be memorialized in a series of dots and dashes. Frank Jewett Mather Jr. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...
Morse developed his electric telegraph system and a language of dots and dashes two decades before the Civil War. His first message clattered across a wire from Baltimore to Washington on May 24, 1844 ...
About 62 people had claimed invention of the first electric telegraph by 1837, when Britain started the first operating telegraph using five needles to point to alphabet letters. New York professor ...
The telegraph has become the epitome of an obsolete technology. The last telegram was sent two years ago, and Morse code blinked out a few years before that. But in terms of influence, Samuel Finley ...
DEER LODGE — A steady series of clicks — to the untrained ear no different from one another — resonated from the telegraph key as Kerry Facincani opened the meeting with the traditional message first ...