Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 304

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.) Greatest Wonder of the Age! Prof. Morse's Electro Magnetic Telegraph!! Letterpress broadside, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; minor toning, laid down on later board; date completed in manuscript. Albany, NY, 6 February 1845
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An advertisement for a very early demonstration of Morse's telegraph, less than a year after his "What hath God wrought?" message. This broadside promises that "the apparatus is sufficiently extensive for writing or sending intelligence across the street," and offers that "the names of persons, who may desire it, will be written in Telegraphic Characters." No other copies recorded.