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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
372
FOOTNOTES:
[A]
The
Berkshire
Hills,
Stockbridge,
Massachusetts.
APPENDIX.
INSTRUMENTS
FOR
SIGNALLING
ACROSS
THE
ATLANTIC
OCEAN.
If
the
project
of
an
Atlantic
Telegraph
be
justly
ascribed
to
the
daring
of
an
American,
and
its
success
to
his
courage
and
perseverance
through
years
of
struggle
and
disappointment;
the
solution
of
the
scientific
problem
involved
in
it,
is
due
to
the
genius
of
a
Scotchman,
whom
the
writer
of
this
volume
first
knew
(and
it
is
a
pleasant
memory
to
have
known
such
a
man
in
the
beginning
of
his
splendid
career)
as
Professor
Thomson
of
the
University
of
Glasgow,
where
his
father
had
been
professor
before
him,
whom
the
son
succeeded
in
the
Department
of
Physics,
which
included
the
then
little
known
science
of
Electricity,
to
which
the
young
professor
devoted
himself
with
all
the
eagerness
of
scientific
genius.
The
project
of
a
telegraph
across
the
ocean
suggested
new
problems
and
new
difficulties,
to
which
he
applied
himself
with
characteristic
ardor,
the
result
of
which
is
here
given.
When
the
second
expedition
of
the
Great
Eastern
(in
1866)
was
successful,
the
British
Government
at
once
recognized
his
eminent
services;
and
the
name
of
Sir
William
Thomson
has
since
been
recognized,
among
the
leaders
in
scientific
discovery,
not
only
in
England
but
all
over
the
scientific
world.
The
government
has
recently
added
a
further
dignity
in
making
him
a
peer
of
the
realm,
an
honor
hitherto
reserved
generally
for
the
leaders
of
armies,
like
Wellington.
To
confer
it
on
a
simple
professor
shows
an
advance
of
civilization
in
the
respect
paid
to
intellectual
greatness.
In
conferring
such
a
title,
the
government
does
not
honor
the
man
more
than
it
honors
itself.
It
is
to
the
glory
of
England
that
such
an
honor
should
be
paid
to
science
in
the
person
of
Lord
Kelvin,
as
was
paid
to
literature
in
the
person
of
Lord
Tennyson.
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