Flickr - USCapitol - Telegraph Centennial Plaque, Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Lee lawrie bronze, 34-3/4" x 48-3/4" unveiled may 24, 1944 center section, first floor text of the plaque what hath god wrought! 1791 1872 samuel f. B. Morse the inventor on may 24 1844 in the old supreme court room - now the law library in the capitol - sent the above message to baltimore maryland by the first electro-magnetic telegraph instrument on may 24 1944 the seventy-eighth congress of the united-states -second session - dedicated this memorial to the humility and vision which enabled this inventor to be the conveyor of this universal blessing to mankind this official architect of the capitol photograph is being made available for educational, scholarly, news or personal purposes (not advertising or any other commercial use). When any of these images is used the photographic credit line should read “architect of the capitol. ” these images may not be used in any way that would imply endorsement by the architect of the capitol or the united states congress of a product, service or point of view. For more information visit www. Aoc. Gov.