The Telegraph
Antonio Rosetti (born 1819)
![[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/12/samuel-f-b-morse-head-and-shoulders-portrait-facing-front-55c6cb-640.jpg "[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]")
[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Scratched on face of plate: 139. Scratched on back of plate: 15; 294 Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of... more
![[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a telegraph apparatus, facing slightly left]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1850/01/01/samuel-fb-morse-half-length-portrait-posing-with-left-hand-on-a-telegraph-apparatus-640.jpg "[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a telegraph apparatus, facing slightly left]")
![[Worker repairing telegraph line?]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/11/10/worker-repairing-telegraph-line-06fca7-640.jpg "[Worker repairing telegraph line?]")
[Worker repairing telegraph line?]
No. 61 & 62 (handwritten) and 2562 (stamped) on mount. Title devised by Library staff. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States... more
Patent Drawing for John Deere's Improvement in Plows
Utility Patent Drawings
New York City--The Morse celebration at the Academy of Music, June 10t...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 July 1, p. 249.
Morse apparatus and alphabet
Print shows apparatus for sending and receiving coded telegraph messages, with the alphabet and numbers in "Morse code." Title from item. Illus. in: Knight's American mechanical dictionary. New York : Hurd and ... more
![[Thomas Edison, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1880/01/01/thomas-edison-head-and-shoulders-portrait-facing-left-640.jpg "[Thomas Edison, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]")
[Thomas Edison, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]
Copyright 1880 by Emil P. Spahn, Newark, New Jersey.
![[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/11/08/alexander-graham-bell-three-quarter-length-portrait-standing-facing-left-8bbb4f-640.jpg "[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left]")
[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facin...
Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Alexander Graham Bell photographs. Photograph of 1882 painting by Lobrichon, Paris.
Patent Drawing for T. A. Edison's Incandescing Electric Lamp
Utility Patent Drawings
Samuel F. B. Morse from "Gately's World's Progress. A general history ...
This image has been taken from scan 000350 from volume 01 of "Gately's World's Progress. A general history of the earth's construction and of the advancement of mankind ... Edited by C. E. Beale. Édition de lu... more
![[Alexander Graham Bell swimming, his head above water, with cigar in his mouth]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/10/11/alexander-graham-bell-swimming-his-head-above-water-with-cigar-in-his-mouth-707358-640.jpg "[Alexander Graham Bell swimming, his head above water, with cigar in his mouth]")
[Alexander Graham Bell swimming, his head above water, with cigar in h...
Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress).
![[Thomas Edison, half-length portrait, facing front] / J.M. White & Co.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1893/01/01/thomas-edison-half-length-portrait-facing-front-jm-white-and-co-640.jpg "[Thomas Edison, half-length portrait, facing front] / J.M. White & Co.")
[Thomas Edison, half-length portrait, facing front] / J.M. White & Co.
3351Y2 U.S. Copyright Office.
![[Wilbur Wright, age 30, seated facing right, half-length side view]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/14/wilbur-wright-age-30-seated-facing-right-half-length-side-view-11d9f6-640.jpg "[Wilbur Wright, age 30, seated facing right, half-length side view]")
[Wilbur Wright, age 30, seated facing right, half-length side view]
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 11. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... more
![[Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/22/wilbur-wright-working-in-the-bicycle-shop-db71e6-640.jpg "[Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop]")
[Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop]
Title from reference print. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LOT 11512. Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
![[Orville Wright and Edwin H. Sines, neighbor and boyhood friend, filing frames in the back of the Wright bicycle shop]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/11/02/orville-wright-and-edwin-h-sines-neighbor-and-boyhood-friend-filing-frames-b9de8b-640.jpg "[Orville Wright and Edwin H. Sines, neighbor and boyhood friend, filing frames in the back of the Wright bicycle shop]")
[Orville Wright and Edwin H. Sines, neighbor and boyhood friend, filin...
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 135. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in L... more
![[Orville Wright before he grew a mustache, side view facing right, half length]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/26/orville-wright-before-he-grew-a-mustache-side-view-facing-right-half-length-b3482c-640.jpg "[Orville Wright before he grew a mustache, side view facing right, half length]")
[Orville Wright before he grew a mustache, side view facing right, hal...
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 21. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... more
![[Side view of Wilbur Wright piloting a glider in level flight almost overhead, moving to left, showing bottom wing and elevator]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/11/17/side-view-of-wilbur-wright-piloting-a-glider-in-level-flight-almost-overhead-46d006-640.jpg "[Side view of Wilbur Wright piloting a glider in level flight almost overhead, moving to left, showing bottom wing and elevator]")
[Side view of Wilbur Wright piloting a glider in level flight almost o...
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 50. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... more
![[Wilbur Wright in prone position on glider just after landing, its skid marks visible behind it and, in the foreground, skid marks from a previous landing; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/11/23/wilbur-wright-in-prone-position-on-glider-just-after-landing-its-skid-marks-952f4d-640.jpg "[Wilbur Wright in prone position on glider just after landing, its skid marks visible behind it and, in the foreground, skid marks from a previous landing; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]")
[Wilbur Wright in prone position on glider just after landing, its ski...
Title based on reference print and information in: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 50. Attributed to Wilbur and/... more
![[Childhood portraits of Wilbur Wright]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/17/childhood-portraits-of-wilbur-wright-2a6306-640.jpg "[Childhood portraits of Wilbur Wright]")
[Childhood portraits of Wilbur Wright]
Title based on reference print. No film copy neg. Copy negative of portrait photographs. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LOT 11512. Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers o... more
"Wireless telegraphy" / J.S. Pughe.
Illustration shows George F. Hoar sitting on the U.S. Capitol dome using a telegraph to send a "wireless" message "Keep it up! We are with you!" across a body of water to the insurgent forces fighting against A... more
![[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, by window]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1902/01/01/alexander-graham-bell-three-quarter-length-portrait-standing-facing-right-by-640.jpg "[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, by window]")
[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facin...
Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family.
Telegraph Co., Washington Branch, Mch. 25, telegram, Dutch standard st...
Cartoon shows a man, possibly the head of the American Sugar Refining Company, Henry O. Havemeyer or the head of American Crystal Sugar Company, Henry Thomas Oxnard, leaving the Western Union Telegraph office ... more
![[Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1904/01/01/wilbur-and-orville-wright-with-their-second-powered-machine-huffman-prairie-640.jpg "[Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]")
![[Orville Wright, age 34, head and shoulders, with mustache]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/26/orville-wright-age-34-head-and-shoulders-with-mustache-dca37c-640.jpg "[Orville Wright, age 34, head and shoulders, with mustache]")
[Orville Wright, age 34, head and shoulders, with mustache]
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 21. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... more
![[Wilbur Wright, age 38, head and shoulders, about 1905; one of the earliest published photographs of him]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/11/01/wilbur-wright-age-38-head-and-shoulders-about-1905-one-of-the-earliest-published-4e447f-640.jpg "[Wilbur Wright, age 38, head and shoulders, about 1905; one of the earliest published photographs of him]")
[Wilbur Wright, age 38, head and shoulders, about 1905; one of the ear...
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 11. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Copy photograph ... more
![[Wilbur Wright, age 38, head and shoulders, about 1905; one of the earliest published photographs of him]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1905/01/01/wilbur-wright-age-38-head-and-shoulders-about-1905-one-of-the-earliest-published-640.jpg "[Wilbur Wright, age 38, head and shoulders, about 1905; one of the earliest published photographs of him]")
Thomas Edison and his original dynamo, Edison Works, Orange, N.J., U.S...
Thomas Edison, standing, full-length portrait, in front of engine. No. 13001.
The collapsed Wright airplane photographed just after it struck the gr...
The collapsed Wright airplane photographed just after it struck the ground. At Fort Meyer [sic], on Sept. 17, at a height of 75 feet, on a turn, one of the new nine foot propeller blades was broken. The machine... more
![O. Wright flying [in his airplane, crowd on field]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1908/01/01/o-wright-flying-in-his-airplane-crowd-on-field-640.jpg "O. Wright flying [in his airplane, crowd on field]")
Bystanders help extricate the mortally wounded US Army (USA) Lieutenan...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Myer, Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Pub... more
Wilbur Wright examining canoe attachment to aeroplane before 1st fligh...
Title and other information transcribed from caption card. LOT subdivision subject: Orville and Wilbur Wright aviation activities - Wilbur's flights over New York harbor, 1909. George Grantham Bain Collection (... more
![Orville Wright at start of flight, Fort Meyer [i.e. Myer], Va.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1909/01/01/orville-wright-at-start-of-flight-fort-meyer-ie-myer-va-640.jpg "Orville Wright at start of flight, Fort Meyer [i.e. Myer], Va.")
Orville Wright at start of flight, Fort Meyer [i.e. Myer], Va.
Airplane on ground. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Orville Wright and Lieutenant Lahm of the United States Signal Corps m...
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
The Wright Brothers test fly their aircraft on Fort Myer's parade fiel...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Myer, Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Pub... more
![[Series of flights from May through July, just after the opening of the Wright Flying School, probably Orville acting as instructor; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/04/series-of-flights-from-may-through-july-just-after-the-opening-of-the-wright-0d11be-640.jpg "[Series of flights from May through July, just after the opening of the Wright Flying School, probably Orville acting as instructor; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio]")
[Series of flights from May through July, just after the opening of th...
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 24. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... more
![[Orville seated in Wright airplane with Albert B. Lambert before takeoff; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/11/06/orville-seated-in-wright-airplane-with-albert-b-lambert-before-takeoff-simms-7144b6-640.jpg "[Orville seated in Wright airplane with Albert B. Lambert before takeoff; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio]")
[Orville seated in Wright airplane with Albert B. Lambert before takeo...
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 24. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... more
American and British linemen constructing telegraph and telephone line...
British Photographs of World War I
Alexander Graham Bell at the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the 1...
Title from item. Blind stamp on lower right: Photo by Richard W. Sears, Boston. Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress).
![[Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone walking together]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/22/thomas-edison-and-harvey-firestone-walking-together-cbe63b-640.jpg "[Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone walking together]")
[Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone walking together]
J297234 U.S. Copyright Office. Title devised by Library staff. No. 47255.
![[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in their 1903 airplane]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/29/rear-view-of-the-wright-brothers-four-cylinder-motor-as-installed-in-their-b74b8b-640.jpg "[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in their 1903 airplane]")
[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in...
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 140. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy ... more
![[Woman with original steel plow made by John Deere in Grand Detour, Illinois in 1838, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1938/01/01/woman-with-original-steel-plow-made-by-john-deere-in-grand-detour-illinois-640.jpg "[Woman with original steel plow made by John Deere in Grand Detour, Illinois in 1838, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]")
![[Samuel F.B. Morse, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing front, posed with a camera and glass plate negatives]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1950/01/01/samuel-fb-morse-three-quarter-length-portrait-seated-facing-front-posed-with-640.jpg "[Samuel F.B. Morse, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing front, posed with a camera and glass plate negatives]")
[Samuel F.B. Morse, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing fron...
Copy photograph of plate published in the Philadelphia Photographer, v. 9, 1872, opp. p. 1.
Laboratory of Alexander Graham Bell, Boston, Massachusetts
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... more
STORY OF THOMAS ALVA EDISON
ARC Identifier 49442 / Local Identifier 306.3090. U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) Made possible by a donation from Public.Resource.Org.
Events marking the centennial of the first powered flight, Wright Brot...
Photographs Documenting the Secretary's Activities, and Agency Officials, Events, Programs, and Managed Sites
Events marking the centennial of the first powered flight, Wright Brot...
Photographs Documenting the Secretary's Activities, and Agency Officials, Events, Programs, and Managed Sites
Mural backdrop on stage at ceremonies marking the centennial of the fi...
Photographs Documenting the Secretary's Activities, and Agency Officials, Events, Programs, and Managed Sites
Historical reenactment activities marking the centennial of the first ...
Photographs Documenting the Secretary's Activities, and Agency Officials, Events, Programs, and Managed Sites
Historical reenactment activities marking the centennial of the first ...
Photographs Documenting the Secretary's Activities, and Agency Officials, Events, Programs, and Managed Sites
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers use a cutting torch to dismantle a wate...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers use a cutting torch to dismantle a water tower in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The effort is part of on-going efforts to upgrade and ... more
Vintage crank telephone at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the uni...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... more
![[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/12/10/samuel-f-b-morse-head-and-shoulders-portrait-facing-right-3e1e02-640.jpg "[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]")
[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]
Case: scroll motif. Plate mark: Six pointed star with the word "DOUBLE" under which appears "J," an animal figure and the letter "W" in a lozenge. Copy daguerreotype. Written in ink on back of plate: S.F.B. Mor... more
![[Alexander Graham Bell (right) and his assistants observing the progress of one of his tetrahedral kites]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/25/alexander-graham-bell-right-and-his-assistants-observing-the-progress-of-one-8c5fba-640.jpg "[Alexander Graham Bell (right) and his assistants observing the progress of one of his tetrahedral kites]")
[Alexander Graham Bell (right) and his assistants observing the progre...
Another copy filed in LOT 11533-10-27, no. 7. Title devised by Library staff. Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). Published i... more
Monument to Wilbur and Orville Wright, viewed during visit of Secretar...
Photographs Documenting the Secretary's Activities, and Agency Officials, Events, Programs, and Managed Sites
John Deere Blacksmith Shop, Marthasville, Warren County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-167 Survey number: HABS MO-1707
![[Orville Wright, about three years old, half-length portrait, in oval, facing front]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/10/08/orville-wright-about-three-years-old-half-length-portrait-in-oval-facing-front-9f12a6-640.jpg "[Orville Wright, about three years old, half-length portrait, in oval, facing front]")
[Orville Wright, about three years old, half-length portrait, in oval,...
Title devised by Library staff.