[ARC5] Alfred Vail - the true inventor of 'Morse' code

[Joe Connor]

 Here's the link to an article I wrote on Vail/Morse for American History magazine several years ago. 
                           Joe Connor
https://www.historynet.com/morses-partner-argued-he-invented-famous-code-to-no-a-vail/
    On Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 12:16:15 PM EDT, Tom Lee <tomlee at ee.stanford.edu> wrote:  
 
 I for one believe Vail. Morse was not much of an engineer. Vail's claim 
of having estimated the frequency of occurrence of letters by consulting 
a newspaper office is the kind of cleverness that's frankly hard to 
attribute to Morse.

It doesn't help Morse's case that he spent much of the rest of his life 
trying to get Congress to appropriate funds to fight the certain 
invasion of the US by Vatican forces. A bit of a nutter Morse was.

-- Tom

On 9/25/2025 8:11 AM, Dave Merrill wrote:
> Today is his birthday.
>
> Morse's Partner Argued He Invented Famous Code—to No A-Vail
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> https://share.google/hbo9aOTBfjvHQCVwJ
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> __... ...__ Dave N9ZC
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