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Identifier: mastersofspacemo00towe (find matches)
Title: Masters of space: Morse and the telegraph; Thompson and the cable; Bell and the telephone; Marconi and the wireless telegraph; Carty and the wireless telephone;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Towers, Walter Kellogg, 1888-
Subjects: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907 Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922 Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937 Carty, John J. (John Joseph), 1861-1932 Telegraph Telegraph, Wireless Telephone Radio
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & brothers
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EARLY NEW YORK EXCHANGE Boys were employed as operators at first,but they were not adapted to the work so wellas girls.
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PROFESSOR BELL IN SALEM, MASS.,AND MR. WATSON IN BOSTON, DEM-ONSTRATING THE TELEPHONE BE-FORE AUDIENCES IN 1877 DR. BELL AT THE TELEPHONEOPENING THE NEW YORK-CHICAGOLINE, OCTOBER l8, 1892 THE CENTENNIAL among the judges, and they eagerly followedthe example of the Emperor. Joseph Henry,the most venerable savant of them all, tookhis place at the receiver. Though his previoustalk with Bell, when the telephone was nomore than an idea, should perhaps have pre-pared him, he showed equal astonishment,and instantly expressed his admiration. Nextfollowed Sir William Thomson, the hero ofthe cable and Englands greatest scientist.After his return to England Thomson de-scribed his sensations. I heard, he said, To be or not to be. . . theres the rub,through an electric wire;but, scorning monosyllables, the electric artic-ulation rose to higher flights, and gave mepassages from the New York newspapers.All this my own ears heard spoken to me withunmistakable distinctness by the then cir-cular-disk a

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  • booksubject:Morse__Samuel_Finley_Breese__1791_1872
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  • booksubject:Telephone
  • booksubject:Radio
  • bookpublisher:New_York__London__Harper___brothers
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:184
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  • bookcollection:americana
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