Great movements, and those who achieved them (1882)
Nicoll, Henry James · New York, Harper & Bros. · leaf 463
applying it on a large scale for public use,is, beyond all question, due to Professor Morse, of the UnitedStates. So writes Sir David Brewster, and the best authori-ties on the question substantially agree with him. In themonth of October, 1832, while on his homeward voyage onboard the steamship… … SAMUKL P. B. MORSE. BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLUGE OF IfBERAL ARTS LIBRARY ^ Jackson v. MorseP 455 ister of the United States to the French Government. A fel-low-passenger of Morse, a Dr. Jackson, afterward claimed thathe was the real originator of the idea; that he had communi-cated it to Morse, and…
