Highlights

Artist
Lee Lawrie
Medium
Bronze
Year
1944
Dimensions
34-3/4" x 48-3/4"
Location
Center Section, First Floor
Old Supreme Court Chamber
U.S. Capitol Building

Text of the Plaque:

WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT!

1791          1872

SAMUEL F.B. MORSE
THE INVENTOR

ON MAY 24 1844 IN THE OLD SUPREME
COURT ROOM - NOW THE LAW LIBRARY
IN THE CAPITOL - SENT THE ABOVE
MESSAGE TO BALTIMORE MARYLAND
BY THE FIRST ELECTRO-MAGNETIC
TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT
ON MAY 24 1944 THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED-STATES
-SECOND SESSION - DEDICATED THIS
MEMORIAL TO THE HUMILITY AND VISION
WHICH ENABLED THIS INVENTOR TO
BE THE CONVEYOR OF THIS UNIVERSAL
BLESSING TO MANKIND