Caption

A 19th-century engraving depicts the American inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791–1872) standing next to his electromagnetic telegraph. The illustration shows the early Morse apparatus, consisting of the transmitting unit (telegraph key), batteries and the receiver, which records the signals on a strip of paper, 1837, authentic, high-resolution reproduction of a 19th-century original, exact date of the illustration unknown, historical

Date

Aug 05, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/ImageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

Reference

BRK26H81_244

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

94.4Mb (31.5Mb) / 29.1in x 12.6in / 8736 x 3776 (300dpi)

Keywords

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