Piercy, Willis Duff · New York, Charles E. Merrill company · leaf 73
ain for mid-ocean.The cable was spliced in fifteen hundred fathoms ofwater and again the ships started for opposite shores.Field was on the Niagara headed toward Newfound-land. Scarcely any one looked for success. Fieldwas the only man who kept up courage through this TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE 71… … Cykus W. Field Buchanan flashed under the sea. There was greatexcitement everyw^here. The two worlds had beentied together with a strange electric nerve. On the evening of the first of September a greatovation was tendered Field in New York. National 72 INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES salutes were…
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