Heavenly Power Quotes
Washington DC to Baltimore. While Morse is remembered as a pioneering inventor. What is not remembered is that Morse could not find private backing for his invention. However, in a midnight session of Congress in 1843, $30,000 was appropriated to build the first magnetic telegraph. Morse sent this first message from the U. S. Capitol building. In a way the telegraph was a precursor to the Internet which while conceived of by private citizens had to be initially funded by the Government.