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Samuel F.B. Morse gave the first public telegraph demonstration 178 years ago in Baltimore. The federal government was less than impressed.
A neglected anniversary of sorts, came and went May 24; it was the first public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph 178 years ago at the B&O’s Mount Clare Station, today the home of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum.
Source: baltimoresun.com