claiming that " it cannot be refuted tha1 Dr. C. T. Jackson, of Boston, is the first inventor of the electric telegraph." He refers to the fact that Dr. Jackson and Professor Morse were together ...

expresses itself thus:— " No doubt the discovery of the principles upon which the electric telegraph system is founded does not belong to M. Morse, but he was the first to transfer that ...

Instantaneous electrical communication seemed so miraculous that Samuel Morse's first message on his ... in England and the United States, the electric telegraph soon crisscrossed continents ...