Description of the American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore

by Alfred Vail

$1,000 · Offered by Back Creek Books

Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. Wood engravings. Disbound. Octavo. 24 pages. Vail was an engineer and inventor who collaborated with Samuel B. Morse in the development and practical application of the telegraph. Some have argued it was actually Vail who invented the telegraphic alphabet named after Morse, but Vail seems to put that to rest in this pamphlet, to wit: This

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