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American inventions and inventors (1900)

Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 273

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r in receiving it would be obliged to noticethe order of movement among the wires. From that simplebeginning inventors proceeded to suggest first one thingand then another, but they found so many difficulties that itseemed impossible to overcome them all. CHAPTER V. THE TELEGRAPH. On the second day… … ELECTRIC WIRES. Breese Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph. Hisname is as widely known the world over as that of Washing-ton, or Caesar, or Aristotle. His long life had been ex-tremely checkered. He had passed through troubles, trials,anxieties, disappointments, bereavements; he had been…

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