![]() Later, when transcribing the message, Morse added a question mark… What God had wrought in raising up America was indeed contested, in Morse’s time no less than it is today… “In the King James Version of the Bible, an exclamation mark follows the words ‘What hath God wrought.’ But when Morse transmitted the message, he left off any closing punctuation. He chose as the content of his message the biblical phrase, “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT” On May 24, 1844, he succeeded in sending the first telegraph message in Morse code from Washington D.C. ![]() An American inventor known for his development of the telegraph, he had studied religious philosophy while a student at Yale University and joined the newly formed Congregational Unitarians. ![]() ![]() On 27 April 1791, the American inventor Samuel Morse (1791–1872) was born in Charleston, SC. ![]()
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