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 ...
A neglected anniversary of sorts came and went May 24; it was the first public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph 178 years ago at B&O Mount Clare Station, today the home of the Baltimore ...
This week (May 24) in 1844, Professor Samuel F.B. Morse sat in the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., surrounded by members of Congress, who had come to witness history. Morse complied, ...
Samuel Morse and his assistant, Alfred Vail, are credited with inventing the electric telegraph, but they were helped by the ideas of others. When Morse sent the first official telegraph message from ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Alfred Vail was a key partner to ...
After linking the world for 167 years, the commercial electric telegraph is no more. The speed with which electromagnetic telegraph systems took over both short- and long-distance communication in the ...
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