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Old 10-19-2014, 12:41 PM   #7
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"A patient waiter is no loser" probably wasn't the first thing they ever sent in Morse, but it was what they sent in the first public test of a telegraph over three miles of wire at the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, NJ. Later, in a more famous demonstration, they sent the text "What hath God wrought" in a public test between Washington DC and Baltimore MD on 24 May 1844. Earlier (01 May 1844) they had sent election news (nomination of Henry Clay) over the same circuit.
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