Question

When transcribing this phrase late in life, its popularizer added a question mark in place of the exclamation point present in the King James Version. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this phrase that provides the title of a Daniel Walker Howe history covering the years 1815 to 1848. This phrase’s popularizer said that it “baptized” an invention “with the name of its author.”
ANSWER: “what hath God wrought”
[10e] Samuel Morse sent the message “what hath God wrought” to Alfred Vail while testing the functionality of this technology in 1844.
ANSWER: telegraphy [accept electrical telegraph]
[10m] Vail developed Morse code while working at this type of facility, where he and Morse first unveiled the telegraph’s capabilities in 1838. Joseph R. Anderson saved the Tredegar facility of this type from destruction by Confederates evacuating Richmond.
ANSWER: ironworks [accept Tredegar Iron Works; accept Speedwell Ironworks; prompt on works or industrial plants; prompt on munitions factory or munitions factories; prompt on foundry or foundries or smeltery; prompt on blast-furnaces]
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Chicago CMinnesota A010010
Cornell BNorth Carolina A0101020
Chicago AYale A10101030
Florida BHouston A010010
Michigan AImperial A1010020
Johns Hopkins AMinnesota B0101020
UC Berkeley AMIT A010010
McGill ARutgers A0101020
Ohio State AWUSTL A10101030
Penn State APenn A0101020
Claremont ASouth Carolina A1010020
Columbia AToronto A1010020
Virginia AGeorgia Tech B0101020
Harvard ATexas A10101030
Iowa State AIllinois A1010020
Columbia BNYU A010010
Northwestern AIndiana A0101020
Rutgers BVanderbilt A0101020
Florida AStanford A1001020
Purdue AUC Berkeley B010010
Cornell AGeorgia Tech A10101030
Yale BWUSTL B0101020
Brown AChicago B10101030
Duke AMaryland A010010