The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 504
hisprofession till he was thirty-eight years of age, andthen again visited Europe in the- interests of art, andremained there three years. At the close of his visit, in1832, he had become very much interested in electricalstudies; and it is said that, at that time, became pos-sessed with the idea… … SAMUEL P. B. MORSE. ..J. OEIGINALITY OF MOESE. 501 difficult, however, to comprelaend, in view of what hadbeen done in both these directions, that he should haveknown nothing of it, the more so that he was a man ofeducation as well as a man of information; unlike poorFitch, who conceived the idea…
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