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Samuel F.B. Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph (1914)

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872, Morse, Edward Lind, 1857- · Boston Houghton Mifflin · leaf 168

An illustration from Samuel F.B. Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph, 1914, leaf 168
on of signals by sound, for which I took outletters patent in Paris, and at the same time I communi-cated to the Minister of War, General Bernard, my plansfor a military telegraph with which he was much pleased. I dined with him by invitation, and in the evening,repairing with him to his… … ^ RAILWAY TELEGRAPH DRAWING BY MORSEPatented by him in France in 1S38, and embodying principle of Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph SKEPTICISM OF A MARSHAL 133 battle-field, and gave him my reasons for believing thatthe army first using the facilities of the electric tele-graph for military purposes…

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