1807 – 1859
Alfred Vail
United StatesCommunications
Background
An American machinist and Morse's business partner.
Contribution
Contributed key hardware and is credited by many historians with major work on the dot-dash code and the register/key that made the Morse system work.
Popular credit vs. the record
Vail's share of the code and apparatus is often underplayed relative to Morse.
Associated inventions
Collaborators & contemporaries
Sources & further reading
Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.
- Smithsonian — National Museum of American HistorySmithsonian Institution · Museum
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