Historical sketch of the electric telegraph
Subtitle: including its rise and progress in the United States. By Alexander Jones.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781425517212
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; History / United States / General; United States - General
First sentence: IT has been supposed by many that the idea of an electric telegraph did not exist anterior to Dr. Franklin's experiments made to test the identity of the lightning with that generated by an electrical machine; but such was not the fact.