Rogers, Henry J.
Henry J. Rogers papers, 1844-1896.
These papers include correspondence with Samuel F. B. Morse, Alfred Vail, and Matthew Fontaine Maury. Also included are patent applications, material documenting his pioneering work in nautical signal systems, a HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH by Rogers, and a certificate signed by Joseph Henry and Alexander Dallas Bache attesting to the quality of Rogers' design for an insulated wire for submarine and subterranean telegraph lines.
Henry J. Rogers (1811-1879) was an inventor and a pioneer in the development of the telegraph.
Rogers, Henry J.
History of science and technology.
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867.
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878.
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
Vail, Alfred, 1807-1859.
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