This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others—and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the technical and commercial fields, they succeeded in flashing both messages and speech around the world, with wires and without wires. It is the story of how the thought of the world has been linked together by those modern wonders of science and of industry—the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, and, most recently, the wireless telephone. (From Preface) - Summary by Walter Kellogg Towers
PrefaceCommunication Among the AncientsSignals Past and PresentForerunners of the TelegraphInventions of Sir Charles WheatstoneThe Achievement of Morse'What Hath God Wrought?'Development of the Telegraph SystemTelegraphing Beneath the SeaThe Pioneer Atlantic CableA Successful Cable AttainedAlexander Graham Bell, The YouthThe Birth of the TelephoneThe Telephone at the CentennialImprovement and ExpansionTelegraphing Without WiresAn Italian Boy's WorkWireless Telegraphy EstablishedThe Wireless Serves the WorldSpeaking Across the ContinentTelephoning Through SpaceAppendix AAppendix B
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