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1. Alfred Vail Journal - Alfred Vail Journal, Alfred Vail, S.F.B. Morse and telegraph information and genealogical notes on Vail family comprised during his time in Morristown 4" x 6 1/2" x 3/4"

   Book, account

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. Alfred Vail's Circuitry Notebook - Notebook owned by Alfred Vail. Signed on cover by Alfred and containing a total of 88 pages consisting of 15 pages of notes, 25 pages of diagrams, 11 pages of notes with diagrams, and 37 blank pages. On both pages of the inside back cover there is a pencil diagram of a circuit to be used in the message sent from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore. Towards the end of the book there are notes signed by Alfred and dated June 27, 1844. This item belongs to the Telegraph Papers Series 2

   Notebook

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. Alfred Vail's Notebook, green. - Notebook owned by Alfred Vail. Green marbled hardcover. Contains circuit drawings; notes pertaining to telegraph; and geneological information pertaining to the Vail Family. This item belongs to the Telegraph Papers Series 2

   Notebook

   Record Type: Archive

   
4. Note by Alfred Vail - Note at one time wrapped around the base of Alfred Vail's original telegraph instrument, which explains why Alfred did not publicly claim his inventions. It has been framed. "This lever & roller were invented by me on the 6th story of the New York Observer office in 1844 before we put up the Telegraph line between Wash & Balt & have been [sic] the Combination has been always used in Morse's instrument. I am the sole & only inventor of this mode of of telegraph embossed writing. Prof Morse gave me no clue to it or did any one else, & I have not asserted publicly my right as first & sole inventor because of wishes to preserve the peacefull [sic] unity of the invention & because I could not according to my contract with Prof. Morse have got a patent for it. Alfred Vail"

   Note

   Record Type: Archive

   
5. The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: with reports of Congress and a Description of all Telegraphs Known employing Electricity of Galvanism - The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: with reports of Congress and a Description of all Telegraphs Known employing Electricity of Galvanism by Alfred Vail The Telegraph Collection is organized into 2 series, items in this record refer to Series 1: History of the Telegraph;

   Book

   Record Type: Archive

   
6. The Electro Magnetic Telegraph - Vail, Alfred

   Book

   Record Type: Library

   
7. The telegraph register of the electro-magnetic telegraph companies in the United States and the Canadas, - Vail, Alfred

   Book

   Record Type: Library