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Alfred Vail America apparatus Atlantic cable Atlantic Telegraph Company Author Bain battery became brother C. F. Varley carbon Charles circuit cloth boards coil Cooke Crown 8vo devised discovery Drawn with Pen Edison EDWIN HUGHES electric telegraph electrician electro-magnet employed engineer exhibited experiments father Fleeming Fleeming Jenkin furnace galvanometer Gauss gilt edges heat honour idea Illustrated improved instrument insulated introduced invention inventor iron Jenkin JOHANN PHILIPP REIS laboratory letter light lodestone London machine magnet mechanical Messrs metal microphone miles mirror mirror galvanometer Morse needle paper Paris patent PATERNOSTER ROW Pen and Pencil phonogram phonograph PICTURES Professor Bell Professor Hughes published railway received recorder Reis Royal scientific ship signals siphon siphon recorder Sir William Thomson Society sound speaking speech Story stylus submarine cables tele Telegraph Company telephone tion took transmitting tympanum Valentia Island vibrations voice Wheatstone William Siemens wire words
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Page 288 - French Pictures. Drawn -with Pen and Pencil. By the Rev. SAMUEL G. GREEN, DD With 150 fine Engravings.
Page 89 - It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind than was ever won by a conqueror on the field of battle. May the Atlantic Telegraph, under the blessing of Heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Divine Providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty, and law throughout the world.
Page 25 - I can assure the reader that I have, by the help of a distended wire, propagated the sound to a very considerable distance in an instant, or with as seemingly quick a motion as that of light, at least, incomparably swifter than that, which at the same time was propagated through the air ; and this not only in a straight line, or direct, but in one bended in many angles.
Page 288 - Pictures from the German Fatherland. Drawn with Pen and Pencil. By the Rev. SAMUEL G. GREEN, DD With fine Engravings.
Page 189 - In the Canadian department I heard ' To be or not to be ' — ' there's the rub,' through an electric telegraph wire; but, scorning monosyllables, the electric articulation rose to higher flights, and gave me passages taken at random from the New York newspapers: 'SS Cox has arrived,' (I failed to make out the SS Cox), 'The city of New York...
Page 61 - I have devoted all my tune and scanty means, living on a mere pittance, denying myself all pleasures and even necessary food, that I might have a sum to put my Telegraph into such a position before Congress as to insure success to the common enterprise.
Page 229 - And virgins, as unknown he passed, have pined And wasted for fond love of his wild eyes. The fire of those soft orbs has ceased to burn, And Silence, too enamoured of that voice, Locks its mute music in her rugged cell.
Page 288 - With fine Engravings. Pictures from Bible Lands. Drawn with Pen and Pencil. Edited by the Rev. SG GREEN, DD With fine Engravings. NB— The above three volumes may be had bound together in one handsome book, entitled
Page 62 - The practical inference from this law is, that a telegraphic communication on the electro-magnetic plan may with certainty be established across the Atlantic Ocean ! Startling as this may now seem, I am confident the time will come when this project will be realized.