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♦ “ENCLOSED IN SMALL CYLINDERS ALONG WIRES”: Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, 447.
♦ “A COACH AND APPARATUS”: Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery, 273.
♦ “ZENITH-LIGHT SIGNALS”: Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, 460.
♦ “THIS LED TO A NEW THEORY OF STORMS”: Ibid., 301.
♦ “A DIFFERENT SENSE OF ANACHRONISM”: Jenny Uglow, “Possibility,” in Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow, Cultural Babbage, 20.
♦ “IF, UNWARNED BY MY EXAMPLE”: Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, 450.
♦ “THEY SAY THAT ‘COMING EVENTS’ ”: Ada to Lady Byron, 10 August 1851, in Betty Alexandra Toole, Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers, 287.
♦ “MY BEING IN TIME AN AUTOCRAT”: Ada to Lady Byron, 29 October 1851, ibid., 291.
5. A NERVOUS SYSTEM FOR THE EARTH
♦ “IS IT A FACT—OR HAVE I DREAMT IT”: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1851), 283.
♦ THREE CLERKS IN A SMALL ROOM: They managed the traffic “easily, and not very continuously.” “Central Telegraph Stations,” Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers 4 (1875): 106.
♦ “WHO WOULD THINK THAT BEHIND THIS NARROW FOREHEAD”: Andrew Wynter, “The Electric Telegraph,” Quarterly Review 95 (1854): 118–64.
♦ HE WAS NEITHER THE FIRST NOR THE LAST: Iwan Rhys Morus, “ ‘The Nervous System of Britain’: Space, Time and the Electric Telegraph in the Victorian Age,” British Journal of the History of Science 33 (2000): 455–75.
♦ ALFRED SMEE: Quoted in Iwan Rhys Morus, “ ‘The Nervous System of Britain,’ ” 471.
♦ “THE DOCTOR CAME AND LOOKED”: “Edison’s Baby,” The New York Times, 27 October 1878, 5.
♦ “THE TIME IS CLOSE AT HAND”: “The Future of the Telephone,” Scientific American, 10 January 1880.
♦ “ELECTRICITY IS THE POETRY OF SCIENCE”: Alexander Jones, Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph: Including Its Rise and Progress in the United States (New York: Putnam, 1852), v.
♦ “AN INVISIBLE, INTANGIBLE, IMPONDERABLE AGENT”: William Robert Grove, quoted in Iwan Rhys Morus, “ ‘The Nervous System of Britain,’” 463.
♦ “THE WORLD OF SCIENCE IS NOT AGREED”: Dionysus Lardner, The Electric Telegraph, revised and rewritten by Edward B. Bright (London: James Walton, 1867), 6.
♦ “WE ARE NOT TO CONCEIVE OF THE ELECTRICITY”: “The Telegraph,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 47 (August 1873), 337.
♦ “BOTH OF THEM ARE POWERFUL”: “The Electric Telegraph,” The New York Times, 11 November 1852.
♦ “CANST THOU SEND LIGHTNINGS”: Job 38:35; Dionysus Lardner, The Electric Telegraph.
♦ COUNT MIOT DE MELITO CLAIMED: Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito, vol. 1, trans. Cashel Hoey and John Lillie (London: Sampson Low, 1881), 44n.
♦ MEANWHILE THE CHAPPES MANAGED: Gerard J. Holzmann and Björn Pehrson, The Early History of Data Networks (Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society, 1995), 52 ff.
♦ “THE DAY WILL COME”: “Lettre sur une nouveau télégraphe,” quoted in Jacques Attali and Yves Stourdze, “The Birth of the Telephone and the Economic Crisis: The Slow Death of Monologue in French Society,” in Ithiel de Sola Poolin, ed., The Social Impact of the Telephone (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977), 97.
♦ “CITIZEN CHAPPE OFFERS AN INGENIOUS METHOD”: Gerard J. Holzmann and Björn Pehrson, The Early History of Data Networks, 59.
♦ ONE DEPUTY NAMED A PANTHEON: Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, 17 August 1794, quoted in ibid., 64.
♦ CHAPPE ONCE CLAIMED: Taliaferro P. Shaffner, The Telegraph Manual: A Complete History and Description of the Semaphoric, Electric and Magnetic Telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Ancient and Modern (New York: Pudney & Russell, 1859), 42.
♦ “THEY HAVE PROBABLY NEVER PERFORMED EXPERIMENTS”: Gerard J. Holzmann and Björn Pehrson, The Early History of Data Networks, 81.
♦ “IF YOU’LL ONLY JUST PROMISE”: Charles Dibdin, “The Telegraph,” in The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, vol. 2 (London: G. H. Davidson, 1863), 69.
♦ “THESE STATIONS ARE NOW SILENT”: Taliaferro P. Shaffner, The Telegraph Manual, 31.