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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