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THE author of this book desires that it shall be regarded as in some respects a sequel to his volume on “Pioneers of Electricity.” He begins with a short account of the origin of the telegraph, and then sketches the lives and principal achievements of those discoverers and inventors to whom we owe the electric telegraph and the telephone—Charles Wheatstone, Samuel Morse, Sir William Thomson, Sir William Siemens, Fleeming Jenkin, J. P. Reis, Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, and D. E. Hughes. In an appendix, Mr. Munro gives brief accounts of various other investigators whose names are intimately connected with his subject. He has a plain, straightforward style, and the book will give much pleasure to young readers who take interest in the practical applications of science.
Heroes of the Telegraph
By J. Munro. (London: Religious Tract Society, 1891.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 45, 5 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045005c0
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