The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 85
characters representing nu-merals and letters, and words and sentences, was given by each of thesemodes in this first-constructed instrument as is given in instruments ofthe present day. The instrumentalities are the same, and the result thesame; the only difference is in the mode of using the… … Diagram 12. Although the contemplation of static electricity as a means of produc-ino a permanent record at a distance gave rise in my mind to the con-ception of the invention on board the ship, it was not the static form ofelectricity, but its dynamic form, which I immediately adopted for…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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