Excerpt from Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 6: Published Monthly, With Illustrations; July-December, 1889
Others before him had devised system of great merit, while many of his con temporaries, of higher scientific attain ments, were diligently working in the same direction; nevertheless, his suc cess in adapting the telegraph to the ignorance of the age rightfully placed him beyond competition.
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