Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York : Henry Holt and company · leaf 199
o side, * William B Taylor in the Smithsonian Report, 1878, has a memoiron Henry and the Telegraph. At page 357 he describes alpha-betic binary notation in its successive phases. 152 LEADING AMERICAN INVENTORS marked a zigzag on the paper traveling beneath. Vailimproved this instrument by giving… … Electro-niagnet Strong. registered dots and dashes in a continuous line, scoring aninestimable advance on the unrecordable swings of Germanneedles, or the zigzag lines of Morses first register. AlfredVail died in Morristown on January 18, 1859. It has beenrepeatedly declared that he and not Morse…
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