Existing comment:
What Hath God Wrought!
1791 1872
Samuel F.B. Morse
The Inventor
On May 24 1844 in the Old Supreme Court Room - now The Law Library in the Capitol - sent the above message to Baltimore Maryland by the first electro-magnetic telegraph instrument.
On May 24 1944 the Seventy-Eighth Congress of the United-States -- Second Session -- dedicated this memorial to the humility and vision which enabled this inventor to be the conveyor of this universal blessing to mankind. |