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Morse's wire runs from the Capitol to Baltimore. The first message down it is four words out of Numbers 23:23 — What hath God wrought.
Geometry, Two clocks: A reading: the message leaves the body, and the count speeds again.
In plain words
Morse's telegraph runs from the Capitol to Baltimore, and the first message is from Numbers 23:23: “What hath God wrought.” The word leaves the body: a message that arrives with nothing arriving.
The mechanism
THE WORD LEAVES THE BODY — every carrier before this had one, and you stopped the message by stopping the thing carrying it. After 1844 the message arrives with nothing arriving. Everything after is the same cut: cable, wireless, the net
Scripture
Numbers 23:23
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a release
- Letter eraTHE SEAT MOVES TO THE BENCH 1713 to 1945
- Plate — Daguerreotype of Samuel F. B. Morse, c. 1845 · Library of Congress · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Finley_Breese_Morse_-_Daguerreotype_-3g12153v.jpg
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD
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