Inventing the Telegraph F. B. Morse Alfred Vail cm147

"The American Inventors of the Telegraph, With Special References to the Service of Alfred Vail," by Franklin Leonard Pope. This is an original article from Century Magazine, 1888, 6 1/4"x9 1/2".

Century Magazine. Vol. XXXV, No. 6, April, 1888, 21 pp. (loose), 25 engraved illustrations.

During the last half of the 19th century Harper's Weekly, Scribner's and Century Magazine Published many great articles on current and recent events in history, both national and international, the Arts, World Travel and much more. Though photography was developed (forgive the pun) during the 1840s the preferred medium for magazine illustration was the great art of engraving, until the 1890s when photographs began to replace engravings.

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