What a Novel Idea!
Fellow communicators I need your help.
In the early 1800’s I became interested in improving communications throughout this great country of ours. I studied the early telegraph machines and discovered that they were designed in such a way that they required 26 pairs of wires. One pair of wires for each letter of the alphabet. I knew that if I was going to realize my dream of providing virtually instant communication across our country, that having to run this many wires was going to be cost prohibitive.
I therefore set about to find a way to get the entire English language to travel down a single pair of wires. I called this concept “Broad Band” telegraphy. To accomplish this I redesigned the telegraph machine so that it had a single rather then multiple electromagnets. I then devised a codex that would allow the encoding and transmission of all the alphabet and the ten digits over a single pair of wires.
Ironically, the codex I developed was not the one comprised of dots and dashes that is often attributed to myself. What you now know as Morse Code was really developed by my trusty assistant Alfred Vail.
In 1842, congress granted me $30,000 with which to “wire” the United States. I like to call this novel idea the “Internet”. In fact, if you read “The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers" by Tom Standage, you will discover that I, Samuel F.B. Morse, am truly the “Father of the Internet”.
The reason I seek your help today is because an unscrupulous politician (that’s redundant) from the 21st Century is making false claims the HE is the father of the Internet. I assure you nothing could be further from the truth. If you go to the specified location you will find a logbook, which you are encouraged to sign. Once I obtain sufficient signatures, attesting to my having fathered the Internet, the logbook will be sent to Congress in an effort to set the record straight.
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