The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 156
from 1 to 3 p. m., these veryhours, if we are to believe the companys secretary who records thefact, were taken by the operators to go to dinner! Such a looseness ofdiscipline on such a line seems incredible, and must have been excep-tional. All this, however, led to the evident necessity of a… … J-n^ ■^^;- /IJfaurkU -/. ^. OF FFMSyfVAfJfA. ♦^4--. ^ The Magnetic Telegraph Company. 131 William M. Swain. Mr. William M. Swain was what Dr. Chalmers of Scotland used tocall a man of vvecht. He was a man of very positive character. Hewas proprietor of the Public Ledger, of Philadelphia, and…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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