Masters of Space

MASTERS OF SPACE

BY WALTER KELLOGG TOWERS - ILLUSTRATED

[Illustration: SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE

TO - MY CO-LABORER AND COMPANION - BERENICE LAURA TOWERS - WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE - WERE CONSTANT IN THE GATHERING - AND PREPARATION OF MATERIAL - FOR THIS VOLUME. - ILLUSTRATIONS - SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE - MORSE'S FIRST TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT - CYRUS W. FIELD - WILLIAM THOMSON (LORD KELVIN) - THE "GREAT EASTERN" LAYING THE ATLANTIC CABLE, 1866 - ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL - THOMAS A. WATSON - PROFESSOR BELL'S VIBRATING REED - PROFESSOR BELL'S FIRST TELEPHONE - THE FIRST TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD USED IN NEW HAVEN, CONN., FOR EIGHT SUBSCRIBERS - EARLY NEW YORK EXCHANGE - PROFESSOR BELL IN SALEM, MASS., AND MR. WATSON IN BOSTON, DEMONSTRATING THE TELEPHONE BEFORE AUDIENCES IN 1877 - DOCTOR BELL AT THE TELEPHONE OPENING THE NEW YORK-CHICAGO LINE, OCTOBER 18, 1892 - GUGLIELMO MARCONI - A REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OUTSIDE OF THE CLIFDEN STATION WHILE MESSAGES WERE BEING SENT ACROSS TO CAPE RACE - MARCONI STATION AT CLIFDEN, IRELAND - PREFACE

W.K.T. - #MASTERS OF SPACE# - I - COMMUNICATION AMONG THE ANCIENTS

II. SIGNALS PAST AND PRESENT

III. FORERUNNERS OF THE TELEGRAPH

IV. INVENTIONS OF SIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE

V. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MORSE

VI. "WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?"