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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
MODERN PRACTICE OF THt ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ELECTRICIANS. -- IN
AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF MY FORMER CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, 1861 - 1864 UNDER WHOSE ENLIGHTENED,
PROGRESSIVE, AND LIBERAL ADMINlSTKATION THE METHODS OF MODERN
SCIENCE WERE FIRST APPLIED TO AMERICAN TELEGRAPHY MORSE SAMUEL
FINLEY BREESEI, inventor of the recording electrc-magnetic
telegraph, born in Charlestovn, Zlass., .pril 27, 1791 graduated at
Yale, 1810 studied art in the Royal Academy of London, 1811-15,
under Benjamin West. In 18ag he again visited Europe for further
study of his profession, and while returning home in 1832, on board
the ship Sully, conceived and made drawings of his recording
telegraph see J. L. REII Th Telegp-aplr z Inet-zca, chapters vi.,
vii.. From this time until his death he uas unremttingly eniployed
with his inxention, passing meantime through many vicissitudes oi
fortune, and some most painful experiences. He was first professor
of fine arts in the University of the City of Sew York, in one of
the rooms of which institution he set up in 1835 his first crude
recording telegraphic ap paratui, now preserr-ed in the cabinet of
the Western Union Company in Xew York. In 1837, Alfred Vail, a
skillful mechanic and inventor, became his partner in the
enterprise. Vail entirely reconstructed the apparatus, and embodied
it in the practical form in which it was first introduced to the
commercial r-orld. After a series of discouragenients that vould
have utterly disheartened most men. llorse, assisted by Vail,
establilhed in 1844, under an appropriation from Congress, the
first line between Washington and Baltimore. On May 24 of that
year, Morse put to the test the greatexperiment on which his mind
had been laboring for many anxious and wear- years. His triumph was
complete. Honors and riches were showered upon him at home and
abroad. Professor Morse was a man of great simplicity of character,
firm in his friendships, and most persistent and exhaustive in all
his undertakings. He wielded the pen of a ready writer, and his
genius, learning, and taste were illustl-ated by numerous
contributions to the press, evincing not only graceful rhetoric but
elaborate and well-sustained argument. On June 10, 1871, a bronze
statue of Morse, erected by the contributions of the thousands of
telegraphic employees in America, was unveiled vith imposing
ceremonies in Central Park, New York. He died in New York, rpril 2,
1872. PREFACE. LMOST a quarter of a century has passed since the
publication A of the first edition of this work. During that
period, and more especially during the past ten years, the progress
which has been made in the application of electricity to the
industrial arts has been literally unprecedented, while the
extraordinary practical results which have been attained have
exerted a reflex action in stimulating in an equal degree the
advancement of electrical science an ad- vancement which has not
been without its influence upon the theory and practice of the
electric telegraph. This circumstance has at length rendered
necessary, not a mere revision of the original treatise, but the
preparation, in fact, of an entirely new work throughout. To the
intelligent and observant mind of youth, the art of teleg- raphy
possesses a singular fascination, and in many instances its pursuit
tends to excite a spirit of scientific inquiry, not only com-
mendable initself, but valuable as establishing a sure foundation
for future success in broader fields of labor...
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