America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

The Invention of the Electric Telegraph

3 pages in this part of America First.

The Invention of the Electric Telegraph

A packet-ship, named the Sully, was slowly making its way across the ocean from Havre to New York. Among the passengers was a New York…

The Invention of the Electric Telegraph: Morse

Morse listened attentively to the conversation. "If it is true that a current passes so swiftly through a great length of wire, why could…

The Invention of the Electric Telegraph: Congress

Unable to secure private help, Morse went to Washington and exhibited his apparatus to some Congressman. Then he petitioned Congress for an…

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