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May 24, 2009

First Morse Code Message Sent from Washington DC to Baltimore in 1844

Portrait of Samuel Finley Breese MorsePortrait of Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Samuel Morse sent the first telegraphic message 165 years ago today.

The Libraries has many portraits of Morse in its digital collection, Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, 2003.—Elizabeth Periale

Posted by Smithsonian Digital Library at 09:00:00 AM in Collection Highlights, Dibner Library, Science, Special Collections

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Nice reading, thank you!!

Posted by: Dave | November 20, 2009 at 06:19 AM

Nice reading, Thanks!

Posted by: Dave | November 20, 2009 at 06:15 AM

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