Samuel Morse

Ports of Call

By Gerard J. Holzmann | Mar 15, 1998

Serial and parallel ports, the holes that transmit data from inside a PC to the outside world, were invented in the nineteenth century. Morse's patented tele... Read story

Taking Stock

By Gerard J. Holzmann | Sep 15, 1999

Nowadays, fraudulent online stock-trading schemes are common. But even before the first electric telegraph, two bankers committed the equivalent of modern-da... Read story