<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Samuel Morse">Samuel Morse</a> sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bible">biblical</a> quotation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Numbers" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Book of Numbers">Numbers</a> 23:23) from a committee room in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Capitol">United States Capitol</a> to his assistant, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Vail" id="mwgw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alfred Vail">Alfred Vail</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore" id="mwhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland" id="mwhQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, to inaugurate a commercial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy" id="mwhg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Telegraphy">telegraph</a> line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.<sup about="#mwt23" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_24#cite_note-2" id="mwhw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwiA">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt20" class="citation web cs1" id="mwBmU"><a class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/samuel-morse-papers/articles-and-essays/invention-of-the-telegraph" id="mwBmY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Invention of the Telegraph"</a>. <i id="mwBmc">Library of Congress</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBmg">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBmk">January 8,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt20" class="Z3988" id="mwBmo" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Library+of+Congress&amp;rft.atitle=Invention+of+the+Telegraph&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fcollections%2Fsamuel-morse-papers%2Farticles-and-essays%2Finvention-of-the-telegraph&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+24"></span></span>