[ih] infrastructure history [was: who invented the Internet]

[Larry Press]

> Telegraph (right-of-way grants, Army protection)


In 1843, Samuel Morse convinced the US Congress allocate $30,000 to fund 
a pilot project -- a 37-mile link from Washington to Baltimore:

http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/471/hout/nethistory/index.htm

Larry