History, theory, and practice of the electric telegraph (1866)
Prescott, George B.(George Bartlett),1830-1894 · Boston, Ticknor and Fields · leaf 232
y,that the worst insulation has always been near Valentia; andtherefore it seems probable that if the fault which exists on thiscoast, and which, very likely, forms the principal cause of leakage,could be removed, the insulation would be so far improved as torender the cable again avadable for… … PART V. PROGRESS OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. CHAPTER XV. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. Psalm xix. 4. Among the impossibilities enumerated to convince Job of hisignorance and weakness, the Almighty asks, Canst thou sendlightnings, that they may…
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