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January 2008Happy Birthday: 1838These days, using electronically encoded messages is a hallmark of the Internet, but that concept was imagined — and officially instituted — on January 6, 1838, when Samuel F.B. Morse first demonstrated his telegraph. Plenty of the words that claim 1838 as a birth year telegraphed the colorful changing world of 170 years ago. It's easy to find which words saw the first light of print in a particular year. Select the Collegiate as the reference, click on Advanced Search, type the year in the Date field, and click on Search.
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