Wireless telegraphy, the latest marvel in applied science, is surely and steadily forging ahead, and will cover areas of land and sea, where the land and cable wires do not operate.
The writer feels that no apology is necessary in publishing the following brief outline of telegraph history, a subject which he believes will interest both the old as well as younger readers.
The data of English telegraph history is largely derived from an early edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, while that of the American is taken from a voluminous work published about a quarter of a century ago, by James D. Reid, a friend and associate of Professor Morse. The facts relating to Canadian history are taken from original records, while that of submarine and wireless telegraphy is from numerous sources of contemporary literature and personal knowledge.
While admitting there is nothing strikingly original in the work, the writer ventures to hope that the style will commend itself to those who prefer brevity to wearisome detail.
| The Telegraph in England. | |
| CONTENTS OF SECTION ONE. | |
| PAGE | |
| Explanatory | [10] |
| Telegraph, Electric | [11] |
| The Needle Telegraph | [22] |
| British Government acquires Telegraphs | [29] |
| Telegraph Development | [36] |
| Sir William Fothergill Cooke | [37] |
| Sir Charles Wheatstone | [39] |
| The Telegraph in the United States. | |
| CONTENTS OF SECTION TWO. | |
| Origin of the Telegraph | [44] |
| The Magnetic Telegraph Co. | [60] |
| The Western Union Telegraph Co. | [61] |
| The Postal Telegraph & Cable Co. | [74] |
| The Associated Press of America | [81] |
| Prof. S. F. B. Morse | [89] |
| The Telegraph in Canada. | |
| CONTENTS OF SECTION THREE. | |
| The Origin of the Montreal Telegraph Company | [108] |
| The Great North-Western Telegraph Company | [116] |
| The Canadian Pacific Telegraphs | [120] |
| Canadian Government Telegraphs | [123] |
| Remarks | [125] |
| Reminiscent Stories | [126] |
| Some Prominent Telegraphists | [165] |
| Submarine Telegraphy. | |
| CONTENTS OF SECTION FOUR. | |
| Origin Deep Sea Telegraphy | [198] |
| First Cable Company | [207] |
| First Atlantic Cable | [210] |
| Cable Repairs | [213] |
| Cable Instruments | [218] |
| Cyrus W. Field | [223] |
| Michael Faraday | [228] |
| Lord Kelvin | [229] |
| John W. Brett | [232] |
| Wireless Telegraphy. | |
| CONTENTS OF SECTION FIVE. | |
| Sketch of Signor Guiglielmo Marconi | [233] |
| Genesis of Wireless Telegraphy | [235] |
| Evolution of Wireless Telegraphy | [237] |
| The Marconi Telegraph Company | [239] |
| Wireless Telegraph Apparatus | [243] |
| Opinion of Thos. A. Edison | [245] |
| A Cable Manager’s Views | [246] |
| An Interview with Marconi | [248] |
| Trip of SS. “Minneapolis” | [252] |
| The Disabled SS. “Kroonland” | [253] |
| Uses of Wireless Telegraphy | [255] |
| A Newspaper Opinion | [256] |
| Wireless Telegraphy on the SS. “Parisian” | [260] |
| Future of Wireless Telegraphy | [264] |
| Dominion Wireless Telegraph Company | [267] |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| Frontispiece | [1] |
| Prof S. F. B. Morse | [89] |
| O. S. Wood | [165] |
| Sir Hugh Allan | [167] |
| James Dakers | [169] |
| H. P. Dwight | [172] |
| Wm. Cassils | [174] |
| James Poustie | [176] |
| Charles R. Hosmer | [178] |
| Hon. Geo. A. Cox | [180] |
| Sir W. C. Van Horne | [182] |
| Andrew Carnegie | [184] |
| Sir Sandford Fleming | [186] |
| F. N. Gisborne | [190] |
| Thos. A. Edison | [192] |
| Isaac D. Purkis | [195] |
| Cyrus W. Field | [223] |
| Michael Faraday | [226] |
| Lord Kelvin | [229] |
| Signor Marconi | [233] |
| SS. Parisian | [260] |