ASIN: B0051F0DLK
Publisher: A. J. Cornell Publications
Pages: 13
Originally published in 1911 as part of the author’s larger “Historic Inventions,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 20 pages, describes, in simple language, the life and work of the inventor of the telegraph, Samuel Morse.Sample passage:While he waited he continued to experiment. He believed that the electric current could be sent under water as easily as through the air, and to try this he insulated a wire two miles long with hempen threads that were saturated with pitch-tar and wrapped with India-rubber. He unreeled this cable from a small rowboat between Castle Garden and Governor’s Island in New York Harbor on the night of October 18, 1842. At daybreak Morse was at the station at the Battery, and began to send a message through his submarine cable. He had succeeded in sending three or four characters when the communication suddenly ...
