The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph

Name: The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph
Author: Alfred Vail

by Alfred Vail

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The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph With the Reports of Congress, and a Description of All Telegraphs Known, Employing Electricity or Galvanism

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Sharon Joiner, Paul Marshall, Robert Shimmin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

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2020-02-29

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Public domain in the USA.

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Telegraph -- History

About the author

Alfred Vail

1807–1859

Best known as Samuel Morse’s close collaborator, this early telegraph pioneer helped turn a promising idea into a practical communication system. His mechanical skill and work on telegraph instruments helped shape the spread of long-distance messaging in the 1800s.

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