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Subj: Today in History - May 24
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In a demonstration witnessed by members of Congress, American inventor
Samuel F.B. Morse dispatches a telegraph message from the U.S. Capitol
to Alfred Vail at a railroad station in Baltimore, Maryland. The
message–“What Hath God Wrought?ö–was telegraphed back to the Capitol a
moment later by Vail. The question, taken from the Bible (Numbers
23:23), had been suggested to Morse by Annie Ellworth, the daughter of
the commissioner of patents.
Morse, an accomplished painter, learned of a French inventor’s idea of
an electric telegraph in 1832 and then spent the next 12 years
attempting to perfect a working telegraph instrument. During this
period, he composed the Morse code, a set of signals that could
represent language in telegraph messages, and convinced Congress to
finance a Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph line. On May 24, 1844, he
inaugurated the world’s first commercial telegraph line with a message
that was fitting given the invention’s future effects on American life.
Just a decade after the first line opened, more than 20,000 miles of
telegraph cable crisscrossed the country. The rapid communication it
enabled greatly aided American expansion, making railroad travel safer
as it provided a boost to business conducted across the great distances
of a growing United States.
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