The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 904
he Gold and StockCompany as an energetic and dangerous local power, that hostilityfrom that source began to manifest itself. The Western Union Com-pany could not afford to allow so evident a local force to occupy aposition where it could be taken up as the auxiUary of a competitorand be used… … E. F. LuDwiG. 828 American Telegraphic History. the Continent and the World. George M. Phelps had already con-structed for it an effective printing instrument. Its power, therefore,as a possible antagonist was evident, and had to be regarded. Mr. Tracy R. Edson, whose exceptionally large interest…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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