. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . in sympathyto the inventQrs of these wonderful devices,in the struggles and difficulties which theyexperienced. Professor Morse, the inven- ♦In presenting the following article credit is given thememoirs of the late Major Pangborn, from which the princi-Dal facts were obtained: tor of the telegraph, labored for a longtime before he even succeeded in attract-ing attention. At first his ideas were ridi-culed, and he was regarded as a crank. Trials of the Inventor History records the fact that whenProfessor Morse presented his propositionto Joshua R. Gidd
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . in sympathyto the inventQrs of these wonderful devices,in the struggles and difficulties which theyexperienced. Professor Morse, the inven- ♦In presenting the following article credit is given thememoirs of the late Major Pangborn, from which the princi-Dal facts were obtained: tor of the telegraph, labored for a longtime before he even succeeded in attract-ing attention. At first his ideas were ridi-culed, and he was regarded as a crank. Trials of the Inventor History records the fact that whenProfessor Morse presented his propositionto Joshua R. Giddings, then Chairman ofthe Congressional Committee, he wassummarily dismissed. However a friendof Professor Morse advised Mr. Giddingsnot to dismiss the project entirely withoutcareful consideration, but Mr. Giddingsridiculed the statement of ProfessorMorse that he could send a message often words from Washington to Baltimorein two and one-half minutes. He furtherremarked Good Heavens! if he had saidten. we might have thought him The parting of the ways: Baltimore and Ohio tracks out of Union Station, Washington, on left; Pennsylvania on right 10 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES IVIAGAZINE Professor Morse was not a young manwhen success came to him, havingpassed his fifty-second year. He wasstudent, chemist, artist. In art circleshis fame grew beyond the Hmits of hisown country, and abroad he was the foremost of painters. He hadreached his fortieth year and more beforehis mind became engrossed in the sciencewhich rendered his name immortaLEven after Congress had, by the scantmajorit} of eight, voted the appropria-tion of $30,000, Professor Morse stillhad many difficulties ahead and ridiculefollowed him. Even the PostmasterGeneral suggested that one-half of the route between Baltimore and Morse appealed to the HonorableLouis McLane, President of the Railroad,who, prior to his presidency, had beenMinister to England, Secretary of State,an
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