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 66
t expect sitters to attempt their perilousascent. This enforced leisure gave him the chance hehad long desired and he threw himself heart and soulinto his electrical experiments. Writing of this periodin later years he thus records his struggles: — There I immediately commenced, with very… … FIRST TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT, 1837Now in the National Museum, Washington FIRST TELEGRAPHIC INSTRUMENT 39 three wooden drums, upon one of which the paper waswound and passed over the other two; a wooden pendu-lum, suspended to the top piece of the picture or stretch-ing-frame, and vibrating across the…
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