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On the evening of March 3, 1843, Professor Samuel Morse and his friend, Mr Henry Ellsworth, were standing in the lobby of the United States Senate. There was tension in the air. It was the last day of the Congressional session, and any Bills that had not been signed into law by midnight would be lost.
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Wheen, A. (2010). The birth of an industry. In: Dot-Dash to Dot.Com. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6760-2_2
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