Telegraphs for the United States
Subtitle: letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a report upon the subject of a system of telegraphs for the United States
Contributors: Woodbury, Levi, 1789-1851; Allen, Thomas, 1813-1882, printer; Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864; Cutbush, Edward, 1772-1843; Barron, James, 1769-1851; Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872; United States. Congress House; Burndy Library
Publisher: Thomas Allen, print.
Published: 1837
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Telegraph
Other titles: Morse - Letters -1837
Description: Testimonial statements on the propriety of establishing a system of telegraphs for the United States, solicited from various experts such as B. Silliman, E. Cutbush, James Barron, Samuel F.B. Morse, and others.
Notes: Caption title.

At head of title: 25th Congress, 2d session. Doc. no. 15. House of Representatives. Treas. Dept.

Preface signed by the Secretary of the Treasury, Levi Woodbury.

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 67

SCDIRB copy 39088007034358 has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Herald of Science, no. 67.

SCDIRB copy has a later gilt-tooled burgundy half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and brown endpapers.