[MORSE CODE]. The Alphabet of the American Recording Telegraph of Professor Morse, compared with that of The Telegraph Invented by Mr. A. G. Parks of Williamsburgh, N.Y. N.p., n.d. [ca. late 1840s]. Handbill (191 x 121 mm), old folds, spotting. The handbill shows a side-by-side comparison of Morse’s newly established telegraph alphabet with Parks’ simplified telegraph alphabet which requires only 179 pulsations compared to 349 pulsations required for the Morse alphabet. “The manipulation presents no difficulty, and requires no special machinery. The apparatus will work with a very weak current, and is well adapted to receiving by sound”. Morse’s significant contributions during the Industrial Revolution included the invention of a single-wire telegraph system and Morse code, named after its inventor, that was a revolutionary method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations. It is unclear as to why the simplified Parks alphabet did not gain popularity, but perhaps it was due to the fact that Morse gained significant financial support from the U.S. government that helped aid in the opening of a telegraph line between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, relaying the now famous words over the wire, “What hath God wrought,” from the Supreme Court chamber in the basement of the U.S. Capitol building to Mount Clare Station in Baltimore.