Vail, Alfred, 1807-1859.
Alfred Vail papers, 1835-1938.
Family correspondence; journal (1835) covering Vail's travels, his activities at his family's Speedwell Iron Works, and his attendance at New York University; scrapbook chiefly relating to the Vail family genealogy, the history of Morristown, N. J., and the controversy between the heirs of Vail and Samuel F. B. Morse over their respective importance in the invention of telegraphy; and other family papers; together with drafts, galleys and printed copies of articles and monographs about Vail by his son, James Cummings Vail including the Early history of the electro-magnetic telegraph from letters and journals of Alfred Vail (1914).
Inventor.
New York University
Speedwell Iron Works (Morristown, N. J.).
Iron industry and trade.
Telegraph -- History.
Universities and colleges -- New York (N.Y.)
Morristown (N. J.) -- History.
Articles. aat
Galley proofs. aat
Genealogies. aat ftamc
Scrapbooks. aat aat
Inventors.
Vail family.
Vail, James Cummings.
AIP-ICOS
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA