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October 28th 03, 03:41 AM
Len Over 21
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(Brian) writes:
Lightning Man? Sounds more like Ben Franklin's experiments. Maybe
Jim can fill us in - I think they were second cousins.
The quaint press prodigies of the 1840s called the Morse-Vail
Telegraph System "The Lightning Wire." On the basis of that
they dubbed old Finley as "The Lightning Man."
I don't think Parson Jimmie goes into professional or commercial
communications history, only amateur stuff. The 1844 Baltimore
to DC line was for commercial communications using morse.
LHA
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