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Masters of Space:
Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty

MORSE and the Telegraph
THOMPSON and the Cable
BELL and the Telephone
MARCONI and the Wireless Telegraph
CARTY and the Wireless Telephone

by Walter Kellogg Towers

1917

[Illustration: SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE Inventor of the Telegraph]

To
My Co-Laborer and Companion
Berenice Laura Towers
Whose Encouragement and Assistance
Were Constant In the Gathering
And Preparation of Material
For This Volume.

Contents

  1. Communication among the Ancients
  2. Signals Past and Present
  3. Forerunners of the Telegraph
  4. Inventions of Sir Charles Wheatstone
  5. The Achievement of Morse
  6. "What Hath God Wrought?"
  7. Development of the Telegraph System
  8. Telegraphing Beneath the Sea
  9. The Pioneer Atlantic Cable
  10. A Successful Cable Attained
  11. Alexander Graham Bell, the Youth
  12. The Birth of the Telephone
  13. The Telephone at the Centennial
  14. Improvement and Expansion
  15. Telegraphing Without Wires
  16. An Italian Boy's Work
  17. Wireless Telegraphy Established
  18. The Wireless Serves the World
  19. Speaking Across the Continent
  20. Telephoning Through Space

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