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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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At
the
age
of
four
Samuel
was
sent
to
an
infant
school
kept
by
an
old
lady,
who
being
lame,
was
unable
to
leave
her
chair,
but
carried
her
authority
to
the
remotest
parts
of
her
dominion
by
the
help
of
a
long
rattan.
Samuel,
like
the
rest,
had
felt
the
sudden
apparition
of
this
monitor.
Having
scratched
a
portrait
of
the
dame
upon
a
chest
of
drawers
with
the
point
of
a
pin,
he
was
called
out
and
summarily
punished.
Years
later,
when
he
became
notable,
the
drawers
were
treasured
by
one
of
his
admirers.
He
entered
a
preparatory
school
at
Andover,
Mass.,
when
he
was
seven
years
old,
and
showed
himself
an
eager
pupil.
Among
other
books,
he
was
delighted
with
Plutarch's
LIVES,
and
at
thirteen
he
composed
a
biography
of
Demosthenes,
long
preserved
by
his
family.
A
year
later
he
entered
Yale
College
as
a
freshman.
During
his
curriculum
he
attended
the
lectures
of
Professor
Jeremiah
Day
on
natural
philosophy
and
Professor
Benjamin
Sieliman
on
chemistry,
and
it
was
then
he
imbibed
his
earliest
knowledge
of
electricity.
In
1809-10
Dr.
Day
was
teaching
from
Enfield's
text-book
on
philosophy,
that
'if
the
(electric)
circuit
be
interrupted,
the
fluid
will
become
visible,
and
when:
it
passes
it
will
leave
an
impression
upon
any
intermediate
body,'
and
he
illustrated
this
by
sending
the
spark
through
a
metal
chain,
so
that
it
became
visible
between
the
links,
and
by
causing
it
to
perforate
paper.
Morse
afterwards
declared
this
experiment
to
have
been
the
seed
which
rooted
in
his
mind
and
grew
into
the
'invention
of
the
telegraph.'
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