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Testing a Cable
How Capacitance works
Gutta Percha
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Samuel Morse

The Inventor of Morse Code
 
An oval shape portrait photograph of Samuel Morse, (an old man with grey hair and a large grey beard, wearing a jet black coat), against a black background.
 
Samuel Morse's work had a huge impact on the development of Telegraphy. Not only was he instrumental in setting up America's first overland telegraph line, he also devised the code which was used in telegraph messages all around the world - Morse Code.
 

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