Samuel F.B. Morse; his letters and journals (1914)
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872, Morse, Edward Lind, 1857- · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 64
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, 1S37Now ill 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…
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