The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 87
haracters by a steel point,agaufrage, as if that were my only original mode of marking. This isnot the fact; a pencil, a fountain-pe7i, and the small printing-wheel bywhich ink was used, were among the first modes of marking. Therewere many modes of marking which I devised and tried, but… … Diagram 13. after, and patented as an improvement, since it dispensed with ink;M. Breguet gives to Thomas John, of Prague, the invention of the smallprinting-tvheel, 7ine 7nolette ou roulette,^ to mark the characters, andstates that he received for his invention a platina medal from the Societyof…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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