A correspondent of the " Tribune " states that the operators of the telegraph running between Buffalo and Milwaukee, working under Morse's patent, have for some time past discontinued the practice ...

The story starts in 1837 when Vail visited his old school, New York University, and attended one of Morse’s early telegraph experiments. His family owned Speedwell Ironworks, and he was an ...

Since then, from a know ledge of Prof. Morse's Chemical Telegraph, whien is not worth a single straw, and which cinnot operate as a telegraph at all, that is as it is represented in his drawings ...

The video below shows it in action; our only complaint is the lack of sidetone to hear the Morse as you pound out that next great novel one click at a time. Lovingly restored telegraph gear is a ...

The “one thing” henceforth would be his telegraph, the crude apparatus housed in his New York University studio apartment. Later it would be surmised that, had Morse not stopped painting when ...

May 1: The Whig National Convention takes place in Baltimore. By this point Morse has strung a telegraph wire from Washington to within 15 miles of Baltimore, and an assistant transmits a list of ...

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 ...

Before modern technology, messages took weeks to deliver, but Morse, along with Alfred Vail and Joseph Henry, revolutionized communication in 1836 with the electric telegraph. Initially ...