The Story of the Telegraph, and a History of the Great Atlantic Cable: A Complete Record of the Inception, Progress, and Final Success of That Undertaking, a General History of Land and Oceanic Telegraphs, Descriptions of Telegraphic Apparatus, and Biogra

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In the year 1726 J ohn wood, of England, that electricity could be conveyed a conducting wires, and in 1747 one of the earliest appli cations of the discovery was made by Doctor watson, who extended his experiments over a space of four miles, comprising a circuit of two miles of wire and an equal distance of ground.

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