Excerpt from Electric Telegraph Manipulation: Being the Theory and Plain Instructions in the Art of Transmitting Signals to Distant Places, as Practised in England, Through the Combined Agency of Electricity and MagnetismSince this time the progress has been so rapid, that the Englishman has suddenly found himself in the midst of a most extensive system of telegraphs, before he has scarcely had breathing time to discover what they can do, and how they do it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.