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Telegraph Centennial
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Lee Lawrie
Bronze, 34-3/4" x 48-3/4"
Unveiled May 24, 1944
Center Section, First Floor

Text of the Plaque

WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT!
1791          1872
SAMUEL F.B. MORSE
THE INVENTOR
ON MAY 24 1844 IN THE OLD SUPREME
COURT ROOM - NOW THE LAW LIBRARY
IN THE CAPITOL - SENT THE ABOVE
MESSAGE TO BALTIMORE MARYLAND
BY THE FIRST ELECTRO-MAGNETIC
TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT
ON MAY 24 1944 THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED-STATES
-SECOND SESSION - DEDICATED THIS
MEMORIAL TO THE HUMILITY AND VISION
WHICH ENABLED THIS INVENTOR TO
BE THE CONVEYOR OF THIS UNIVERSAL
BLESSING TO MANKIND


 

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