Heroes of the Telegraph
John Munro
Heroes of the Telegraph
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Prof. John Munro (1849-1930) was the author of Heroes of the Telegraph (1891), The Story of Electricity (1896) and A Trip to Venus (1897). ""In plain English, at 4 a. m., a ray of light had been observed on the disc of the planet Mars in or near the ""terminator""; that is to say, the zone of twilight separating day from night. The news was doubly interesting to me, because a singular dream of ""Sunrise in the Moon"" had quickened my imagination as to the wonders of the universe beyond our little globe, and because of a never-to-be-forgotten experience of mine with an aged astronom.

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HEROES OF THE TELEGRAPH
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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