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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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While
engaged
on
this
work
he
lost
his
wife
in
February,
1825,
and
then
his
parents.
In
1829
he
visited
Europe,
and
spent
his
time
among
the
artists
and
art
galleries
of
England,
France,
and
Italy.
In
Paris
he
undertook
a
picture
of
the
interior
of
the
Louvre,
showing
some
of
the
masterpieces
in
miniature,
but
it
seems
that
nobody
purchased
it.
He
expected
to
be
chosen
to
illustrate
one
of
the
vacant
panels
in
the
Rotunda
of
the
Capitol
at
Washington;
but
in
this
too
he
was
mistaken.
However,
some
fellow-artists
in
America,
thinking
he
had
deserved
the
honour,
collected
a
sum
of
money
to
assist
him
in
painting
the
composition
he
had
fixed
upon:
'The
Signing
of
the
First
Compact
on
Board
the
Mayflower.'
In
a
far
from
hopeful
mood
after
his
three
years'
residence
abroad
he
embarked
on
the
packet
Sully,
Captain
Pell,
and
sailed
from
Havre
for
New
York
on
October
1,
1832.
Among
the
passengers
was
Dr.
Charles
T.
Jackson,
of
Boston,
who
had
attended
some
lectures
on
electricity
in
Paris,
and
carried
an
electro-magnet
in
his
trunk.
One
day
while
Morse
and
Dr.
Jackson,
with
a
few
more,
sat
round
the
luncheon
table
in
the
cabin,
he
began
to
talk
of
the
experiments
he
had
witnessed.
Some
one
asked
if
the
speed
of
the
electricity
was
lessened
by
its
passage
through
a
long
wire,
and
Dr.
Jackson,
referring
to
a
trial
of
Faraday,
replied
that
the
current
was
apparently
instantaneous.
Morse,
who
probably
remembered
his
old
lessons
in
the
subject,
now
remarked
that
if
the
presence
of
the
electricity
could
be
rendered
visible
at
any
point
of
the
circuit
he
saw
no
reason
why
intelligence
might
not
be
sent
by
this
means.
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