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2 unusual facts about O'Reilly v. Morse


O'Reilly v. Morse

” To send a signal from Baltimore to Washington would require thousands of volts and high currents – not feasible at a time when managing to make a pickled frog’s legs twitch, as Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta did, was the major achievement of the electro-galvanic force.

As Justice Taney, speaking for the majority of the Court, explained it, "He claims the exclusive right to every improvement where the motive power is the electric or galvanic current, and the result is the marking or printing in telligible characters, signs, or letters at a distance."


A. Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse

From 1971 to 1980, the Morses' considerable Dalí collection was on show in Beachwood, Ohio at the Salvador Dalí Museum, which was established there in a wing of their business premises.

The Morses' diligent collecting and their friendship with Gala and Salvador Dalí produced a valuable art collection that is now housed in the Salvador Dalí Museum in St.Petersburg, Florida.

Alisa Lepselter

Since Sweet and Lowdown (1999), she has edited all of Woody Allen's films; she succeeded Susan E. Morse, who edited Allen's films for the previous 20 years.

Barton Yarborough

Yarborough was probably best known for his roles as Doc Long in the West Coast cast of Carlton E. Morse's I Love a Mystery and Sergeant Ben Romero, Joe Friday's original partner, on Dragnet.

Buenaventura Durruti

Abel Paz Durruti in the Spanish Revolution, Translated by Chuck W. Morse, AK Press, 2007.

Carlton E. Morse

From 1922 to 1928, Morse was employed at the Sacramento Union, the San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald, The Seattle Times, Vancouver Columbian, Portland Oregonian and The San Francisco Bulletin.

When the Bulletin was absorbed into the San Francisco Call in 1929, Morse lost his job, soon after marrying his first wife, Patricia DeBall.

Charles T. Barney

In 1907, the Knickerbocker entered into a deal organized by speculators F. Augustus Heinze and Charles W. Morse to corner the market of the United Copper Company.

Charles W. Morse

In 1912 Morse became ill, and a panel of Army doctors declared that he suffered from Bright's disease and other maladies and would soon die if he remained in prison.

He became a close associate of F. Augustus Heinze, who became president of Mercantile National, and E.R. Thomas, a young man of large inherited fortune.

Taft signed his pardon, and Morse departed for medical treatment at Wiesbaden.

Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Amongst the many well-known figures who worked for the Customs in China were Willard Straight, botanist Augustine Henry; Johan Wilhelm Normann Munthe, Norwegian; G.R.G. Worcester (1890-1969), River Inspector from 1914 to 1948, and author of seven published books on the Yangzi River; novelist and journalists Bertram Lenox Simpson (known as Putnam Weale) and J.O.P. Bland; and historian H.B. Morse.

Cyrus West Field

Together with Peter Cooper, Abram Stevens Hewitt, Moses Taylor and Samuel F.B. Morse, in 1854 he laid a 400-mile telegraph line connecting St. John's, Newfoundland with Nova Scotia, where telegraph lines from the U.S. terminated.

Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex

To address the large number of false positive results generated by the D–M Soundex, Stephen P. Morse and Alexander Beider created the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching algorithm.

David A. Morse

In 1969, as a result of his inspired leadership, the ILO was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Doggett's Repository of Arts

The gallery exhibited originals and copies of works by European masters such as Titian, Rembrandt, Watteau, and David, and a few American artists, such as Thomas Sully, Gilbert Stuart, Samuel F.B. Morse, Rembrandt Peale, and William Dunlap.

Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills

# Andrew Judson White, MD (1824–1898) — paternal uncle of publisher and poet James Terry White (1845–1920)

The Indian Root Pills were first formulated and manufactured in 1854 by Andrew B. Moore (born around 1821, New York), who was then operating under the name A.B. Moore in Buffalo, New York.

Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills have their genesis with the father of William Henry Comstock (1830–1919) — Edwin Perkins Comstock (1799–1837) — who founded a drug company in New York City sometime before 1833.

Elijah A. Morse

He served as chairman of the Committee on Alcohol Liquor Traffic (Fifty-fourth Congress).

Morse was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1897).

Elmer Morse

Elmer A. Morse, (1870-1945), former U.S. Representative from Wisconsin

Emerante Morse

She and her husband had one daughter and one son, Richard A. Morse, who also became a musician and prominent public figure in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Frank B. Morse

After the death of Edith Nourse Rogers in September 1960, he was selected by the Republican Party to take her place on the ballot and was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress in November 1960.

Freeman H. Morse

His interment was in the parish churchyard of St. Mary’s in Long Ditton, England.

Morse was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861).

Henry Faulds

Whilst accompanying a friend (American archeologist, Edward S. Morse) to an archaeological dig he noticed how the delicate impressions left by craftsmen could be discerned in ancient clay fragments.

Henry G. Morse

Morse was hired in 1925 to visit England and study other manors, travelling around the English countryside and surveying properties such as Wormleighton Manor, fusing together different ideas into the final reconstruction in Virginia.

Leonard F. Morse

Morse continued his education by earning a Master’s degree from Northwestern University and two Doctorates in Metaphysics and Psychology from the College of Metaphysics in Indianapolis, Indiana.

McGill EMF Conference

The IIHD had offices in Geneva and the USA, and was a creation of labor lawyer David A. Morse (Noble Laureate and ex-Director of the International Labor Organization to prmote the views of the tobacco industry to the United Nations, the World Health Organisation), and politicians and health-care administrators in Europe.

Melvin L. Morse

Prior to his arrest, he was working as a pediatrician at an office in Milton, Delaware.

Melvin Morse

Melvin L. Morse, pediatrician and author on near death experiences

Philip M. Morse

Early in 1942 he organized the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group (ASWORG), later ORG, for the U.S. Navy, after the US had entered World War II and was faced with the problem of Nazi German U-boat attacks on transatlantic shipping.

Richard Auguste Morse

His father, Richard M. Morse, was an American academic sociologist and writer, and his mother was a famous Haitian singer, Emerante de Pradines.

Richard S. Morse

Richard S. Morse (August 19, 1911- July 1, 1988) was an American inventor and scientist credited with invention of the orange juice concentrate, the founder of the Minute Maid, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Assistant Secretary of the Army, senior lecturer at Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sigurd F. Olson

He led canoe expeditions for a group that became known as the "Voyageurs," which routinely included Eric W. Morse, Denis Coolican, Blair Fraser, Tony Lovink, Eric W. Morse, Elliott Rodger, and Omond Solandt.

Stephen P. Morse

He is also the co-author with linguist Alexander Beider of the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm.

Stephen S. Morse

He was the founding chair of a nonprofit organization called ProMED (Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases) and was one of the originators of ProMED-mail, an international network inaugurated by it in 1994 for disease outbreak reporting and monitoring using the Internet.

Steven Morse

Stephen S. Morse, (born ~1940s), American scientist on emerging infectious diseases

Stephen P. Morse (born 1940), American computer specialist involved with Intel 8086

Stevenson Magloire

His death was memorialized by his friend, Richard A. Morse, in the ballad Ayizan, released by the rasin band RAM on their second album, Puritan Vodou, in 1997.

William Henry Comstock

He started his business in 1854, William H. Comstock Company, Ltd., which sold patent medicine including Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills, Dead Shot Pellets and McKenzus Dead Shot Worm Candy.


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