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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
75
"Respectfully,
your
obedient
servant,
"Samuel
F.
B.
Morse."
These
experiments
and
others
removed
the
doubts
of
scientific
men.
Professor
Faraday,
in
spite
of
the
law
of
the
retardation
of
electricity
on
long
circuits,
which
it
was
said
he
had
discovered,
and
which
would
render
it
impossible
to
work
a
line
of
such
length
as
from
Ireland
to
Newfoundland,
now
declared
his
full
conviction
that
it
was
within
the
bounds
of
possibility.
The
passage
of
electricity
might
not
be
absolutely
instantaneous,
or
have
the
swiftness
of
the
solar
beam,
yet
it
would
be
rapid
enough
for
all
practical
purposes.
When
Mr.
Field
asked
him
how
long
it
would
take
for
the
electricity
to
pass
from
London
to
New
York,
he
answered:
"Possibly
one
second!"
Thus
fortified
by
the
highest
scientific
and
engineering
authorities,
the
projectors
of
an
ocean
telegraph
were
now
ready
to
bring
it
before
the
British
public,
and
to
see
what
support
could
be
found
from
the
English
Government
and
the
English
people.
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