1844 newspaper SAMUEL MORSE invention of the ELECTROMAGNETIC TELEGRAPH is 1st publically DEMONSTRATED -  inv # 4Q-124

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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Lowell Journal (MA) dated May 31, 1844.  This newspaper contains an inide page report of the FIRST PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION of Samuel Morse's ELECTROMAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. Morse's line was 1st publicaly demonstrated on May 24, 1844, from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol in Washington to the Mount Clare station of the railroad in Baltimore

Nice newspaper coverage of the INVENTION of the ELECTROMAGNETIC TELEGRAPH !!!

The Baltimore–Washington telegraph line was the first long-distance telegraph system set up to run overland in the United States.

Work began in Washington on laying the line to Baltimore using poles on April 1, 1844. They used chestnut poles of seven meters in height, and 60 meters apart. Two wires were laid, Number 16 copper wire, covered by cotton thread with shellac, and a covering mixture of "beeswax, resin, linseed oil, and asphalt." An impressive test of the still incomplete line occurred on May 1, 1844, when news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for U.S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.

Morse's line was first publically demonstrated on May 24, 1844, from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol in Washington to the Mount Clare station of the railroad in Baltimore, and commenced with the transmission of Morse's first message (from Washington) to Alfred Vail (in Baltimore), "What hath God wrought?", a phrase from the Bible's Book of Numbers. The phrase was suggested by Annie Ellsworth, whose husband was a supporter of Morse's, and knew Morse was religious.

As U.S. Postmaster General, Cave Johnson was in charge of the line. Morse was made superintendent of the line, and Alfred Vail and Henry Rogers the operators.

The next year, Johnson reported that "the importance of [the line] to the public does not consist of any probable income that can ever be derived from it," which led to the invention being returned for private development.

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