Excerpt from Heroes of the Telegraph

The present work is in some respects a sequel to the Pioneers of Electricity and it deals with the lives and principal achievements of those distinguished men to whom we are indebted for the introduction of the electric telegraph and telephone, as well as other marvels of electric science.

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