, 70
reversion to first plan for receiver, 61
number code, dictionary, 62
paternity of alphabet code, 62-68
patent in America, 69, 89, 157
continuation of experiments, improvements, 70, 74, 76, 154, 182
cumbersome instruments, 73
alphabet supersedes number code, 74-76
portrule, 74, 88, 90
"Attention, the Universe" message, 75
friction with Vail, 79, 80
exhibition at Washington (1838), no grant results, 81, 103, 135, 137
connection of F.O.J. Smith, cause of his later antagonism, 82, 83
arrangement of partnership with Gale, Vail, and Smith, 83
desire and plan for government control, 84-86, 119, 175, 176, 228,
229, 232, 446
no share in later stock-watering, 86
Smith's report to Congress, 87
expects disappointments, 88, 102, 106
European trip (1838), 89
rivals in Europe, 91, 109
application for British patent, refused, 92-99
interest of English gentlemen, effort for special act of Parliament,
95, 124
exhibitions in England, 96
Russian contract, refusal of czar to sign it, 97, 120, 122, 136-138,
147
witnesses coronation of Victoria, 100, 101
French patents, 103, 119, 132
on birth and baptism of Comte de Paris, 103, 104
exhibition at Institute of France, 104, 107, 108
public and private projects in France, obstacles and failure, 105,
109-120
French enthusiasm over telegraph, 106, 107, 109, 111, 112, 114, 122,
124
discouraged, dark years and poverty (1839-43), 113-116, 135, 147,
149-155, 157, 159-164, 169, 178-181
correspondent for sender, 117
better part of failures, 120, 181
protection of wires from malevolent attack, 120, 123, 147
and underground wires, 121
and Daguerre, 128-130
invention for reporting railroad trains, 132
and principle of fire-alarm, 132
and military telegraph, 132-134
return to America (1839), 135
and lack of effort by partners, 136-138, 147, 151, 165, 167-169, 178,
181, 186, 196, 401
experiments with daguerreotype, takes portraits, 144-146
makes a business of it, 146, 152, 155
takes first group picture (1840), 146
Chamberlain's exhibition of telegraph in European centers, 148-149
rejects proposition from Wheatstone, 158
renewed effort for congressional grant without result (1841-42), 164,
166, 173-178
proposals for private companies, 167, 173
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