<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Vail" id="mwiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alfred Vail">Alfred Vail</a> and colleagues demonstrate a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy" id="mwiQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Telegraphy">telegraph</a> system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code" id="mwig" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Morse code">Morse code</a>).<sup about="#mwt88" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_6#cite_note-16" id="mwiw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwjA">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt85" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFColles1895">Colles, Julia Keese (1895). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Pl5UR4v7T1AC&amp;pg=PT286" id="mwCQA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCQE">Authors and Writers Associated With Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown</i></a>. Library of Alexandria. p.<span id="mwCQI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>286. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCQM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCQQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-4655-0681-8" id="mwCQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4655-0681-8"><bdi id="mwCQY">978-1-4655-0681-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt85" class="Z3988" id="mwCQc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Authors+and+Writers+Associated+With+Morristown+With+a+Chapter+on+Historic+Morristown&amp;rft.pages=286&amp;rft.pub=Library+of+Alexandria&amp;rft.date=1895&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4655-0681-8&amp;rft.aulast=Colles&amp;rft.aufirst=Julia+Keese&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPl5UR4v7T1AC%26pg%3DPT286&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+6"></span></span>