Samuel Morse

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Samuel Morse explaining his telegraph to members of Congress. Morse made his last trip to Washington, D.C., in December 1842, stringing “wires between two committee rooms in the Capitol, and sent messages back and forth” to demonstrate his telegraph system.

Source

David B. Scott A School History of the United States (New York: American Book Company, 1884) 290

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