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[SCIENCE AND MEDICINE] - “MORSE AND THE REVOLUTION OF THOUGHT: TELEGRAPHY IN COLLAGES” - MORSE Samuel F. B. - Autograph letter signed, dated “Washington March 6th 1845” by the American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, he contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system. He was a co-developer of Morse code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy. Morse writes to the American geologist Parker Cleaveland (1780 - 1858), concerning the property of its invention and the possibility of installing it in Colleges: “…The Hon. Mr. Evans has handed me your letter of the I inst. and in reply I would say that had I the entire management of the property of the Telegraph. I should make liberal and immediate arrangement for furnishing to Colleges, the apparatus necessary to explain its operations, but acting with other I am as yet unable to grant any facilities for that purpose. We are, however, intending to put matters in train for a vigorous prosecution of the whole enterprise, and this point of furnishing Colleges with an apparatus for illustrating the operations of the Telegraph will not be overlooked. I will inform you of the result as soon as the arrangements are made…”. 1 p. In-4.