Preface

The present work is in some respects a sequel to the PIONEERS OF ELECTRICITY, and it deals with the lives and principal achievements of those distinguished men to whom we are indebted for the introduction of the electric telegraph and telephone, as well as other marvels of electric science.

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Contents

Preface

Chapter I. the Origin of the Telegraph

Chapter II. Charles Wheatstone

Chapter III. Samuel Morse

Chapter IV. Sir William Thomson

Chapter V. Charles William Siemens

Chapter VI. Fleeming Jenkin

Chapter VII. Johann Philipp Reis

Chapter VIII. Graham Bell

Chapter IX. Thomas Alva Edison

Chapter X. David Edwin Hughes

Appendix

I. Charles Ferdinand Gauss

II. William Edward Weber

III. Sir William Fothergill Cooke

IV. Alexander Bain

V. Dr. Werner Siemens

VI. Latimer Clark

VII. Count Du Moncel

VIII. Elisha Gray

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