The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 819
as the button repeater, basedon the Morse idea of the second or local circuit, and was used in the trans-mission of the speech of Henry Clay on the Mexican War from Cincinnati toNew York. In July, 1851, Mr. Brooks sailed for Mexico to construct the first telegraph inthat country between Vera Cruz… … •*-<►■ I The Western Union Telegraph Company. 751 I uses. In 1856 he became Superintendent of the Atlantic and Ohio TelegraphCo., was appointed District Superintendent of the Western Union Co. in 1862,which he held until 1867, when he resigned, and has since then devoted himselfto the…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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