Either Thomas Edison or Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph. But it wasn't Edison. Therefore, Morse invented the telegraph.
A) No fallacy.
B) Division.
C) False dichotomy.
D) Appeal to ignorance.
E) Appeal to the people.

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The argument correctly uses the process of elimination to conclude that since Edison did not invent the telegraph, Morse must have been the inventor, assuming no other inventors are possible.