Excerpt from The Rise and Extension of Submarine TelegraphyFor fear my hands should be considered idle, and the proverbial employment attributed to them, I have thought it advisable to be doing something. It has occurred to me that to note down some of the facts I have learned by experience in the electrical world would be employment, congenial to myself and at the same time serviceable to others. In this h0pe I submit to my readers the following pages.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.