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Vail’s 1837 version improved significantly on Morses’s; here, Vail’s reception unit. (Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photos)
Vail’s 1837 version improved significantly on Morses’s; here, Vail’s reception unit. (Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photos)