The telegraph manual: a complete history and description of the semaphoric, electric and magnetic telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, ancient and modern.

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tongue. The sound that makes the letter, is as defined in the
one as it is in the other. An operator sits in his room, perhaps some ten feet from his apparatus, and he hears a conversation held between two others, hundreds of miles distant,
and perhaps the parties conversing are equally as far apart.
He hears every word; he laughs with them in their merriment, or perhaps sympathizes with them in their bereavements.
The lightning speaks, and holds converse with man! What
can be more sublime!
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