First telegraph case before the United States Supreme court. [electronic resource] Henry O'Rielly and others, appellants, vers s S.F.B. Morse and others, appellees. Sketch of the opening argument of R.H. Gillet, on the appeal of O'Rielly from the decision of Judge Monroe in Kentucky. December 24th and 27th, 1852.
At head of title: Appendix to the American telegraph magazine.
"The Kentucky decision arose on the effort of O'Rielly to use a new invention made by Zook & Barnes, which he called the 'Columbian telegraph', on the lines which he constructed southward of the Ohio."--p. [3]
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