US dollars), leading Vail to write to Morse,
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Alfred Vail
Alfred Lewis Vail was an American machinist and inventor. Along with Samuel Morse, Vail was central in developing and commercializing American electrical telegraphy between 1837 and 1844.
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science · 19th-century American machinist and inventor · inventor · also Alfred Vail, Alfred Lewis Vail, Alfred L. Vail, Vail
Born 25 September 1807 · Died 18 January 1859 · Q454292
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1995· 1 entry
“They were renewed by love. The heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”
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1987· 1 entry
Published “Chronology of Fluctuating Sea Levels Since the Triassic” in Science — cited 5,892 times.
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1981· 1 entry
“The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”
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1978· 1 entry
“There have been women I have loved … A lot, as discreetly as possible.”
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1975· 1 entry
“There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio: What is sacred? Of what is spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is only love.”
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1974· 1 entry
“Address at Dedication of Wheaton College Library, 1973”
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1963· 1 entry
“Life Ahead : On Learning and the Search for Meaning”
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1958· 1 entry
“being to timelessness as it's to time”
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1870· 1 entry
“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.”
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1859· 1 entry
Died 1859-01-18.
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1848· 2 entries
And moved back to Morristown, where he spent his last ten years researching genealogy
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Because he believed that the managers of Morse's lines did not fully value his contributions
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1845· 1 entry
“s telegraph, he also attributed the code to Morse. He died in 1859 at the age of 51. Recognition A U.S. Army base was named in Vail”
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1837· 1 entry
Vail happened to witness one of Samuel Morse's early telegraph experiments
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1832· 1 entry
Where he was an active and successful student and a member of the Eucleian Society, graduating in 1836
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1817· 1 entry
“When I have fears that I may cease to be”
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1807· 1 entry
Born 1807-09-25.
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1584· 1 entry
“A Handful of Pleasant Deities”
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