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From: das@cs.ucla.edu (David Smallberg)
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Subject: What Hath God Wrought?
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In article <11313@accuvax.nwu.edu> hpubvwa!ssc!tad@beaver.cs.
washington.edu (Tad Cook) writes:

>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.

I wonder how the demo went.  How did the observers verify that the
message sent was the one received, and that no secret pre-demo
arrangement had been made?  I mean, they couldn't just phone Baltimore
and ask! :-) Did they wait around for the train from Baltimore to
arrive with a Congressman saying "We just got the message 'What hath
God wrought?'.  Is that what was sent?"


David Smallberg, das@cs.ucla.edu, ...!{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!cs.ucla.edu!das