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

[Dave Merrill]

Good job, Joe! Yours is the article I referenced.

Thanks for researching the work of Vail and Morse and setting the record
straight.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 11:21 AM Joe Connor via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> > https://share.google/hbo9aOTBfjvHQCVwJ
> >
> > __... ...__ Dave N9ZC
> >
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