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Sunday Scholars: Hands on History for Teens

Pre-registration required.

Sun, 10/14/2012 -
13:00 to 15:00
Sun, October 14th, 2012 |
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Sun, October 21st, 2012 |
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Sun, October 28th, 2012 |
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Sun, November 4th, 2012 |
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Sun, November 11th, 2012 |
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Sun, November 18th, 2012 |
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Sunday Scholars is a six-week program for history-loving high school students, grades 10–12, offering an opportunity to research objects within the New-York Historical’s collection of historical artifacts and create a multi-media project that tells their story. The program is designed for students with a passion for New York City history.


Free with Family Membership or $125 per student for Non-Members. RSVP to sunday.scholars@nyhistory.org by October 1, 2012.

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Concord and the telegraph: read before the Concord Antiquarian Society, January 6, 1902 / by Alfred Munroe

Archives, Room Use Only - F74.C8 M86 1902




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The philosophy and practice of Morse telegraphy: a primary rationale and practical guide for the young telegrapher / by T. Jarrard Smith

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5264.S66 1899




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Jeptha H. Wade in California: beginning the Transcontinental telegraph / by William Frank Zornow

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5125.Z67 1950




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Atlantic telegraph cable / address of Professor William Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., delivered before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, December 18th, 1865 ; with other documents

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5611.K45 1866




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A popular treatise on voltaic electricity and electro-magnetism: illustrated by numerous interesting experiments, with the mode of performing the same / by G.H. Bachhoffner

Archives, Room Use Only - QC517.S935 1830




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The wireless telephone: a treatise on the low power wireless telephone, describing all the present systems and inventions of the new art: written for the student and experimenter and those engaged in research work in wireless telephony / by H. Gernsback

Archives, Room Use Only - TK6550.G47 1910




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Physical memoirs: selected and translated from foreign sources. / under the direction of the Physical society of London

Archives, Room Use Only - QC3.P49 1888




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Forty years of electrical progress: a reprint of the articles which appeared in the 2000th number of "The Electrician", September 15th, 1916.

Archives, Room Use Only - TK57.F67 1916




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Recent improvements in the art of signaling: for military and commercial purposes: the Finley helio-telegraph and its modifications: one instrument for day and night work, a new method and improved apparatus.

Archives, Room Use Only - UG582.H4 F56 1888




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Technical and general instruction pertaining to Western Union telegraph business, circuit rules, signals, tariffs, accounts, cables, press dispatches, and train orders: with questions, answers, and forms used in Valentines' School of Telegraphy, Janes

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5262.V35 1894




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Submarine telegraphy: a practical manual / by Italio de Giuli ; translated from the Italian by J.J. McKichan, with a foreword by T.E. Herbert

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5621.G5313 1932




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The seventh census: report of the Superintendent of the Census for December 1, 1852, to which is appended the report for December 1, 1851 / printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States

Archives, Room Use Only - HA201 1850D




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The soldier's handbook for use in the Army of the United States / published by direction of the Secretary of War

Archives, Room Use Only - U113.U55 1905




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Manual of wireless telegraphy for the use of naval electricians / by Commander S.S. Robison, U.S. Navy

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5741.R73 1911




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Practical telegraphy: a guide for the use of officers of the Commonwealth Post and Telegraph Departments / by H.W. Jenvey

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5263.J46 1904




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Modern practice of the electric telegraph: a handbook for electricians and operators / by Frank L. Pope

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5263.P67 1881




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Telegraphy for beginners: the standard method: an authoritative book of instruction in the methods and forms most approved, with lessons, including the Morse and continental codes / by Willis H. Jones

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5264.J76 1913




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The wonders of wireless telegraphy explained in simple terms for the non-technical reader / by J.A. Fleming

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5745.F55 1914




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The radio-telegraphist's guide and log-book: a manual of wireless telegraphy for the use of operators / by W.H. Marchant

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5743.M37 1912




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Wireless explained: the book for officers of the mercantile marine / by Frederick Cross, Lieut. R.N.R., headmaster and operator on the training ship "Mersey"

Archives, Room Use Only - VM480.5.G7 C76 1918




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Manual of wireless telegraphy for the use of naval electricians / by S.S. Robison

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5741.R73 1906




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Wireless telegraphy for amateurs: a handbook on the principles of radiotelegraphy and the construction and working of apparatus for small stations / by R.P. Howgrave-Graham

Archives, Room Use Only - TK9946.H68 1914




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Great inventors: the sources of their usefulness, and the results of their efforts.

Archives, Room Use Only - T39.G74 1864




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A handbook of the electric telegraph: designed for the use of students and operators / by I.W. Mattison

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5263.M38 1873




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Modern practice of the electric telegraph: a handbook for electricians and operators / by Frank L. Pope

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5263.P67 1873




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Manual of telegraphy designed for beginners / by Prof. J.E. Smith

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5264.S65 1865c




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Cableships and submarine cables / K.R. Haigh ; foreword by Sir Edward Wilshaw

Archives, Room Use Only - VM466.C3 H149 1968




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The relation of the government to the telegraph, or, A review of the two propositions now pending before Congress for changing the telegraphic service of the country / by David A. Wells ; with appendices

Archives, Room Use Only - HE7781.W44 1873




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The Phillips code: a thoroughly tested method of shorthand, arranged for telegraphic purposes, and contemplating the rapid transmission of press reports: also intended to be used as an easily acquired method for general newspaper and court reporting / by

Archives, Room Use Only - HE7669.P55 1914




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Telegraph and telephone: the telegraph, telephone and wireless telegraph illustrated and described, containing a manual of practical lessons for students and others / by Marshall M. Kirkman

Archives, Room Use Only - TF627.K57 1904




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On the maintenance and durability of submarine cables in shallow waters / by William Henry Preece, Assoc. Inst. C.E., with an abstract of the discussion upon the paper ; edited by Charles Manby, F.R.S., M. Inst. C.E., honorary secretary, and James Forres

Archives, Room Use Only - TF627.P74 1863




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Regulations for United States military telegraph lines, Alaskan cables, and telegraph stations, U.S. Signal Corps / prepared under the direction of Brigadier General George P. Scriven

Archives, Room Use Only - UG603.A76 1915




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Lessons in telegraphy: for use as a text-book in schools and colleges and for individual students / by Charles Henry Sewall

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5262.S49 1909




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Tariff for the transmission of messages to the United States of American, &c., &c., &c., issued September 1st, 1873.

Archives, Room Use Only - HE8097.A54 1873




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Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 5 May 1868, for: copy of correspondence and papers relating to the establishment of telegraphic communication between India, Singapore, China and Australia, since the 21st day of February

Archives, Room Use Only - HE8374.G74 1868




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Dr. Norvin Green, president Western Union Telegraph Co. before the House Committee on Post offices and Post Roads, April 8 and 11, 1884.

Archives, Room Use Only - HE7781.W47 1884




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Private code of the National Supply Company; the National Supply Co., Limited; the Illinois National Supply Co.; the National Supply Co. of Kansas; the California National Supply Co.

Archives, Room Use Only - HE7677.O3 N38 1920




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Manual for the solution of military ciphers / by Parker Hitt

Archives, Room Use Only - UB290.H58 1918




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Memorial of Henry O'Rielly [sic]: concerning military highways or "stockade routes" for protecting travelers and settlers, facilitating mail and telegraph communication through vast interior territories, and rendering the United States indep

Archives, Room Use Only - HE336.E94 O74 1858




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The electric telegraph: substance of the argument of S.P. Chase before the Supreme Court of the United States, for the appellants in the case of H. O'Reilly, and others vs. S.F.B. Morse, and others, on appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5118.M7 C43 1853




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Memorial of the family of Morse / compiled from the original records for the Hon. Asa Porter Morse by Harry Dutch Lord

Archives, Room Use Only - CS71.M885 L67 1896




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The official report of the trial of Henry K. Goodwin for the murder of Albert D. Swan in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts: from notes of Mr. J.M.W. Yerrington.

Archives, Room Use Only - KF223.G655 G655 1887




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The decision of the great telegraph suit of Samuel F.B. Morse and Alfred Vail, vs. Francis O.J. Smith / in the Superior Court of the state of New York for the city and county of New York

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5118.M7 N49 1858




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The electric medium: a pattern for the early development of the electric telegraph in the United States, signified by a collection of telegraph delivery envelopes / by Robert Dalton Harris

Archives, Room Use Only - HE6184.C65 H37 1993




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Decision of Hon. Philip F. Thomas, commissioner of patents, on the application of Samuel F.B. Morse, for an extension of his patent for a new and useful improvement in electro-magnetic telegraphs: patented April 11, 1846: patent extended for seven years f

Archives, Room Use Only - KF228.M674 U55 1860




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Before the Commissioner of patents: in the matter of the application of Samuel F.B. Morse, for an extension for seven years of letters patent granted to him June 20th, 1840, reissued January 15th, 1846, and again reissued June 13th, 1848, for the electro-

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5118.M7 H37 1854




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Signal tactics: assimilated to the tactics of artillery, cavalry and infantry, prepared for the use of officers and enlisted men of the military and naval forces of the United States and adapted for the use of the National Guards and military academies /

Archives, Room Use Only - UG573.R44 1880




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The philosophy and practice of Morse telegraphy: a primary rationale and practical guide for the young telegrapher / by T. Jarrard Smith

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5264.S66 1900




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A treatise on telegraphy: prepared for students of the International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pa.

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5261.T74 1901