Abstract :
THE MAGNITUDE of the telegraph industry, its effect on daily life, the stimulus it has given to scientific enquiry and electrical engineering, and especially the influence it had on the formation of the AIEE, all combine to make it fitting that our Institute do Morse and his associates honor on the 100th anniversary of their first public telegraph between Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D. C. A session in recognition of the occasion was held during the 1944 AIEE summer technical meeting.1–3
