Dots and dashes; Morse's demo wrought revolution.(NEWS)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | May 24, 1996 | Copyright

Ask a schoolchild to name America's greatest inventors, and Samuel Finley Breese Morse will fall fairly low on the list.

For one thing, who ever thinks about the telegraph today? In an age where phone, fax and television are more common than cats, who can imagine a time when high-speed communication relied on pigeons and ponies? When sending four words by wire a mere 40 miles, as Morse did on this date in 1844, would mark the end of one world and the birth of the next?

For another, Morse doesn't really fit our culture's romantic, mythic image of the ...

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