This paper appears in: Proceedings of the IEEE
Publication Date: Mar 2002
Volume: 90,
Issue: 3
On page(s): 436-439
ISSN: 0018-9219
CODEN: IEEPAD
INSPEC Accession Number: 7244332
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/5.993407
Current Version Published: 2002-08-07
Abstract
The article reviews the work of three of the pioneers responsible
for the introduction of the electric telegraph. This brings together a
portrait painter, an anatomical model-maker, and a musical instrument
maker who were all interested in the telegraph. The three are an
American, Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), and the Englishmen
William Fothergill Cooke (1806-1879) and Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875).
Cooke and Morse saw the commercial possibilities, but lacked scientific
understanding. Wheatstone had the scientific and technological skills,
but did not see the commercial potential
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