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From: hpubvwa!ssc!tad@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Tad Cook)
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> Unlike Alex Bell's first message on the telephone,
> ("Watson! Come here, I want you."), the first telegraph message from
> Samuel Morse to an associate was "What Hath God Wrought?"  Indeed.  PAT]

Well, not really.  Any "first" telegraph message is lost in antiquity.
S.F.B. Morse sent "What hath God Wrought?" when he demonstrated the
telegraph before members of Congress, when he was seeking backing for
his invention from the U.S. government.


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