PREFACE.

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.

CONTENTS


[ PREFACE. ]


[ CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF THE TELEGRAPH. ]

[ CHAPTER II. CHARLES WHEATSTONE. ]

[ CHAPTER III. SAMUEL MORSE. ]

[ CHAPTER IV. SIR WILLIAM THOMSON. ]

[ CHAPTER V. CHARLES WILLIAM SIEMENS. ]

[ CHAPTER VI. FLEEMING JENKIN. ]

[ CHAPTER VII. JOHANN PHILIPP REIS. ]

[ CHAPTER VIII. GRAHAM BELL. ]

[ CHAPTER IX. THOMAS ALVA EDISON. ]

[ CHAPTER X. DAVID EDWIN HUGHES. ]


[ APPENDIX. ]

[ I. CHARLES FERDINAND GAUSS. ]

[ II. WILLIAM EDWARD WEBER. ]

[ III. SIR WILLIAM FOTHERGILL COOKE. ]

[ IV. ALEXANDER BAIN. ]

[ V. DR. WERNER SIEMENS. ]

[ VI. LATIMER CLARK. ]

[ VII. COUNT DU MONCEL. ]

[ VIII. ELISHA GRAY. ]

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