Masters of Space. Walter Kellogg Towers

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664602329

Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       PREFACE

       #MASTERS OF SPACE#

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

       XV

       XVI

       XVII

       XVIII

       XIX

       XX

       APPENDIX A

       APPENDIX B

       INDEX

      CHAP.

      PREFACE

      I. COMMUNICATION AMONG THE ANCIENTS

      II. SIGNALS PAST AND PRESENT

      III. FORERUNNERS OF THE TELEGRAPH

      IV. INVENTIONS OF SIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE

      V. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MORSE

      VI. "WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?"

      VII. DEVELOPMENT OF THE TELEGRAPH SYSTEM

      VIII. TELEGRAPHING BENEATH THE SEA

      IX. THE PIONEER ATLANTIC CABLE

      X. A SUCCESSFUL CABLE ATTAINED

      XI. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, THE YOUTH

      XII. THE BIRTH OF THE TELEPHONE

      XIII. THE TELEPHONE AT THE CENTENNIAL

      XIV. IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANSION

      XV. TELEGRAPHING WITHOUT WIRES

      XVI. AN ITALIAN BOY'S WORK

      XVII. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ESTABLISHED

      XVIII. THE WIRELESS SERVES THE WORLD

      XIX. SPEAKING ACROSS THE CONTINENT

      XX. TELEPHONING THROUGH SPACE

      APPENDIX A

      APPENDIX B

      INDEX

      ILLUSTRATIONS

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      SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE

      MORSE'S FIRST TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT

      CYRUS W. FIELD

      WILLIAM THOMSON (LORD KELVIN)

      THE "GREAT EASTERN" LAYING THE ATLANTIC CABLE, 1866

      ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

      THOMAS A. WATSON

      PROFESSOR BELL'S VIBRATING REED

      PROFESSOR BELL'S FIRST TELEPHONE

      THE FIRST TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD USED IN NEW HAVEN, CONN., FOR EIGHT SUBSCRIBERS

      EARLY NEW YORK EXCHANGE

      PROFESSOR BELL IN SALEM, MASS., AND MR. WATSON IN BOSTON, DEMONSTRATING THE TELEPHONE BEFORE AUDIENCES IN 1877

      DOCTOR BELL AT THE TELEPHONE OPENING THE NEW YORK-CHICAGO LINE, OCTOBER 18, 1892

      GUGLIELMO MARCONI

      A REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OUTSIDE OF THE CLIFDEN STATION WHILE MESSAGES WERE BEING SENT ACROSS TO CAPE RACE

      MARCONI STATION AT CLIFDEN, IRELAND

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      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.

      The story opens with the primitive methods of message-sending by fire or smoke or other signals. The life and experiments of Morse are then pictured and the dramatic story of the invention and development of the telegraph is set forth. The submarine cable followed with the struggles of Field, the business executive, and Thomson, the inventor and scientific expert, which finally culminated in success when the Great