Category: Biographies
Origin of telegraph--Early evidences of Wheatstone’s-- Working of first needle telegraph--Dispute with Mr. W. F. Cooke as to priority of invention--Wheatstone’s vindication --His electro-magnetic telegraph, magneto-electric machine, electric clock, printing telegraph, chronosc...
Origin of telegraph--Early evidences of Wheatstone’s-- Working of first needle telegraph--Dispute with Mr. W. F. Cooke as to priority of invention--Wheatstone’s vindication --Hi...
8. CHAPTER III.First uses of telegraph--Means of arresting criminals-- Early charges for telegraphing--Formation of Electric Telegraph Company--Wheatstone’s magneto-electric exploder-- His ear...
9. CHAPTER IV.10. CHAPTER I.11. CHAPTER II.Travels to study art--First conception of Recording Telegraph--Experiments with it in New York--Invention of Relay--His poverty and disappointments--His originality disputed--Fi...
12. CHAPTER III.13. CHAPTER IV.Although this work is the first of its kind relating to electricians, its design is neither novel nor tentative. Its object is not only to give a popular account of the most mem...
14. CHAPTER I.“Precious is the new light of knowledge which our Teacher conquers for us; yet small to the new light of Love which also we derive from him: the most important element of any ma...
15. CHAPTER II.At the time when Professor Tyndall was studying at Marburg University, the principal figure there was Bunsen, who had been appointed Professor of Chemistry in 1838. He was a pro...
16. CHAPTER III.“Every secret which is disclosed, every discovery which is made, every new effort which is brought to view, serves to convince us of numberless more which remain concealed, and...
17. CHAPTER IV.“Undaunted he hies him O’er ice-covered wild, Where leaf never budded, Nor spring ever smiled; And beneath him an ocean of mist, where his eye No longer the dwellings of man can...
18. CHAPTER V.“There is something in the contemplation of general laws which powerfully persuades us to merge individual feeling, and to commit ourselves unreservedly to their disposal; while...
19. CHAPTER I.“Talent may follow and improve; emulation and industry may polish and refine; but genius alone can break those barriers that restrain the throng of mankind in the common track o...
20. CHAPTER II.“There is a certain meddlesome spirit which, in the garb of learned research, goes prying about the traces of history, casting down its monuments, and maiming and mutilating its...
21. CHAPTER III.“In conducting the petty affairs of life, common sense is certainly a more useful quality than genius itself. Genius, indeed, or that fine enthusiasm which carries the mind into...
22. CHAPTER IV.“A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, a...
23. CHAPTER I.The ideas of several men, says Mr. J. L. Ricardo, are set in motion by exactly the same circumstances; and men who are in the habit of putting things together very often have th...
24. CHAPTER II.“It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud: we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.” Of this saying the life of Professor Mo...
25. CHAPTER III.The practical working of the telegraph being now demonstrated, Professor Morse may be said to have forsaken his first vocation. He afterwards assured his artist friends that his...
26. CHAPTER IV.“He that has improved the virtue or advanced the happiness of one fellow-creature, he that has ascertained a single moral proposition, or added one useful experiment to natural...
27. PART II. GERMAN-ENGLISH.Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Those in bold are surrounded by equal signs, =like this=. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and wer...