The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 742
ence, Aug. i8, 1838, and entered the tele-graph service in 1853, under the Commercial House Printing Telegraph Co. intheir office, 31 State street, Boston. One of his earliest duties was the hoistingof a small box containing dispatches for transmission, from the outside wallof the receiving room to… … Gerritt Smith.machinery of this character. He was appointed electrician to the WesternUnion Co., Oct. 17, 1882. No one is better known in all telegraphic circles.His ability as an electrician is only equalled by his modesty as a man. Pretenceis unknown to him. It is only justice to a worthy man to…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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