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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...