"The military played a significant role in the application of line telegraphy, not only in providing funds for develop…"

"... Few persons, probably, even among ornithologists realize what an enormous number of birds are killed by flying ag…"

"Sir James Anderson and his crew on the ship Great Eastern attempted to lay down the second transatlantic cable in 186…"

"In August 1858 President Buchanan exchanged greetings with Queen Victoria by means of the newly completed Atlantic ca…"

"Outwards from London, Glasgow, Amsterdam and Hamburg there radiated the lines - shipping lines, railway lines, telegr…"

"Edison exhibited at the International Electrical Exhibition of Philadelphia an automatic telegraph for fac-simile tra…"

"If it be asked what telegraphic system is specifically announced as the most developed and extended throughout the wo…"

"... Gauss and Weber developed an electrical two wires telegraph in 1833 for the synchronisation of observations and t…"

"During the voyage of the packet ship Sully from Havre to New York, in October, 1832, a conversation arose one day in …"

"Every day the telegraph lines over the whole country cease work for a short time for the passage of a signal which is…"