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Morse's colored sketch of railway telegraph

Morse's sketch of the railway telegraph, faster than the Pony Express!

CREDIT: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese. “Colored sketch of railway telegraph,” ca. 1838. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Reproduction Number A67.



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