What hath God wrought

Inventors

Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse (1791-1872) was an American painter turned inventor who developed a single-wire telegraph system and co-created Morse code. On May 24, 1844, he transmitted the first official message — 'What hath God wrought' — from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, inaugurating the age of long-distance electrical communication and fundamentally changing the speed at which information traveled.

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Source: 民数記 23:23（聖書）、1844年5月24日の最初の電信メッセージとして送信Verified

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