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Stephen Vail, owner of Speedwell Iron Works, built machinery for S.S. Savannah, the first trans-Atlantic steamship, in 1819. His son, Alfred Vail, and Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated the electromagnetic telegraph in 1838.
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