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But notwithstanding the labors of many investigators, it was more than fifty years before any other practical discovery or invention in electricity was brought into general use. The first great achievement of the kind was Morse's improvement of the electric telegraph.
So dependent were the States, that a publisher who dared to bring out a native work did so at a financial peril. The first edition of Trumbull's Poems lost one thousand dollars. Morse's Geography, text-books, and the classics were the only remunerative publications. But soon after the War of 1812, evidences of a change were manifest.
Henry O'Reilly, of Rochester, New York, took an active part in this construction work and now took the contract to construct a line from Philadelphia to St. Louis. This line was finished by December of 1847. The path having been blazed, others sought to establish lines of their own without regard to Morse's patents. One of these was O Reilly, who, on the completion of the line to St.
The rank and file of humanity had no definite idea of the plan, or of the results that would follow if it were successful. In reality no one cared. It was Morse's enterprise exclusively a crank's fad alone. There has been no period in the history of society when the public, as a body, was interested in any great change in the systems to which it was accustomed.
The notebooks give a detailed but rather dry account of the daily happenings. It was, presumably, Morse's intention to elaborate these, at some future day, into a more entertaining record of his wanderings; but this was never done. I shall, therefore, pass on rapidly, touching but lightly on the incidents of the journey, which were, in the main, without special interest.
The fiddler and the dancers went to the room where the children had their frolic. That was Jane Morse's cousin Winslow. How odd she should see him and hear black Joe, who fiddled like the blind piper. The children kept time with their feet. The minuet was elegant. Then they had a cotillion in which there was a great deal of bowing. After that Mr.
Success in Portsmouth. Morse and his brother invent a pump. Highly endorsed by President Day and Eli Whitney. Miss Walker visits Charlestown. Morse's religious convictions. More success in New Hampshire. Winter in Charleston, South Carolina. John A. Alston. Success. Returns north. Letter from his uncle Dr. Finley. Marriage.
I don't dare go in heavy there, for I'm not sure just what Morse's position is, and don't want to commit him. I can't think of any public enterprise to work up, or any nuisance to be suppressed." "I wish you'd suppress mosquitoes and flies," said Hannah, brushing away one of the latter insects, and petting a swollen place on her wrist. "Why not write an editorial on it?" suggested Catherine.
But while Wheatstone early indicated his lack of interest in music and devoted himself to scientific studies while yet a youth, Morse's artistic career was of his own choosing, and he devoted himself to it for many years. This explains the fact that Wheatstone attained much scientific success before Morse, though he was eleven years his junior. It was in 1791 that Samuel Morse was born.
The show-down was bound to come. It came one day at the Chandler ranch and the old-timers got the answer to their question. There were two young fellows by the name of Zwing Hunt and Billy Grounds who had been working at Philip Morse's sawmill over in the Chiracahua Mountains.
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