The Story of the Atlantic TelegraphScribner's sons, 1892 - 415 pagina's |
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Agamemnon Albany American arrived Atlantic cable Atlantic Telegraph Company bottom brought buoys Cape Ray capital Captain Anderson coast coil continent Cyrus Cyrus Field Cyrus W deck deep depth despatch Directors distance Eastern electric electricians engineer England enterprise expedition experiments feeling Field Gisborne grapnel Gulf of St heart Heart's Content honor hope hour hundred fathoms hundred miles insulation Ireland island John's Knight of Kerry laid land laying the cable length Liverpool London machinery Medway miles of cable minutes past morning Newfoundland Niagara night o'clock ocean officers once paid passed paying-out perfect pounds Professor Morse received rope sailed SAMUEL F. B. MORSE seemed sent ship shore end side signals Siphon Recorder speed splice steamer strain submarine success tank tele Thomson thousand tion Trinity Bay undertaking Valentia voyage watching whole Willoughby Smith wind wire York
Populaire passages
Pagina 204 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Pagina 234 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Pagina 240 - ... a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Pagina 263 - THREE fishers went sailing away to the West, Away to the West as the sun went down ; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town ; For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbour bar be moaning.
Pagina 82 - Company, certain privileges and protection in regard to the line of telegraph which it is proposed to establish between Newfoundland and Ireland, I am directed by their lordships to acquaint you that they are prepared to enter into a contract with the said Telegraph Company, based upon the following conditions, namely : "1.
Pagina 405 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Pagina 22 - The practical inference from this law is that a telegraphic communication on the electro-magnetic plan may with certainty be established across the Atlantic Ocean. Startling as this may now seem, I am confident the time will come when this project will be realized.
Pagina 164 - Being whose way is in the sea, and whose path is in the great waters?
Pagina 388 - SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That when the said medal shall have been struck the President shall cause a copy of this joint resolution to be engrossed on parchment, and shall transmit the same, together with the said medal, to MajorGeneral Grant, to be presented to him in the name of the people of the United States of America.
Pagina 128 - O ETERNAL Lord God, who alone spreadest out the heavens, and rulest the raging of the sea ; who hast compassed the waters with bounds, until day and night come to an end ; be pleased to receive into thy Almighty and most gracious protection, the persons of us thy servants, and the fleet [or ship] in which we serve.