On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sat in the US Capitol and tapped out ‘What hath God wrought’ to his assistant Alfred Vail 60 kilometres away in Baltimore, a phrase chosen not by Morse but by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend, who picked it out of the Book of Numbers and then traced every letter of it on the tape in ink herself
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse tapped out a four-word message from the US Capitol to Baltimore over 38 miles of copper wire. The verse was chosen by a 17-year-old named Annie Ellsworth from the Book of Numbers that morning.