Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 17, 1795
Primary Source Reference:
Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 17 Feb 1795
Additional Source Text:
"Mr. St. George Tucker of Willilamsburg, Virginia, invented this, from the newspaper general reports, of military events being of late communicated with great speed, between the French armies on the Rhine, and the government at Paris."
Notes:
St. George Tucker (1752-1827) was a Virginia lawyer, teacher, poet, essayist, inventor, and judge who also served as rector (1789-1790) and professor of law (1790-1804) at the College of William and Mary. In December 1794, he tested a signaling device for communicating over long distances that he called a telegraph, after a similar French invention he had learned about, and he sent a model to President James Madison during the War of 1812 / https://encyclopediavirginia.org/2434hpr-ee4a12b1cc09b81/
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