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♦ “ANYTHING THAT COULD BE THE SUBJECT”: Gerard J. Holzmann and Björn Pehrson, The Early History of Data Networks, 56.
♦ “ANYONE PERFORMING UNAUTHORIZED TRANSMISSIONS”: Ibid., 91.
♦ “WHAT CAN ONE EXPECT”: Ibid., 93.
♦ “OTHER BODIES THAT CAN BE AS EASILY ATTRACTED”: J. J. Fahie, A History of Electric Telegraphy to the Year 1837 (London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1884), 90.
♦ “THIS SECONDARY OBJECT, THE ALARUM”: E. A. Marland, Early Electrical Communication (London: Abelard-Schuman, 1964), 37.
♦ HARRISON GRAY DYER TRIED SENDING SIGNALS: “An attempt made by Dyer to introduce his telegraph to general use encountered intense prejudice, and, becoming frightened at some of the manifestations of this feeling, he left the country.” Chauncey M. Depew, One Hundred Years of American Commerce (New York: D. O. Haynes, 1895), 126.
♦ “IT MUST BE EVIDENT TO THE MOST COMMON OBSERVER”: John Pickering, Lecture on Telegraphic Language (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1833), 11.
♦ “TELEGRAPHY IS AN ELEMENT OF POWER AND ORDER”: Quoted in Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700–1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 200.
♦ “IF THERE ARE NOW ESSENTIAL ADVANTAGES”: John Pickering, Lecture on Telegraphic Language, 26.
♦ “A SINGLE LETTER MAY BE INDICATED”: Davy manuscript, quoted in J. J. Fahie, A History of Electric Telegraphy to the Year 1837, 351.
♦ “I WORKED OUT EVERY POSSIBLE PERMUTATION”: William Fothergill Cooke, The Electric Telegraph: Was it Invented By Professor Wheatstone? (London: W. H.Smith & Son, 1857), 27.
♦ “SUPPOSE THE MESSAGE TO BE SENT”: Alfred Vail, The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: With the Reports of Congress, and a Description of All Telegraphs Known, Employing Electricity Or Galvanism (Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1847), 178.
♦ “THE WORDY BATTLES WAGED”: Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals, vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), 21.
♦ “THE MAILS IN OUR COUNTRY ARE TOO SLOW”: Recalled by R. W. Habersham, Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals.
♦ “IT WOULD NOT BE DIFFICULT”: Alfred Vail, The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph, 70.
♦ “SEND A MESSENGER TO MR HARRIS”: Andrew Wynter, “The Electric Telegraph,” 128.
♦ AT THE STROKE OF THE NEW YEAR: Laurence Turnbull, The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph, With an Historical Account of Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition (Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1853), 87.
♦ “IN THE GARB OF A KWAKER”: “The Trial of John Tawell for the Murder of Sarah Hart by Poison, at the Aylesbury Spring Assizes, before Mr. Baron Parks, on March 12th 1845,” in William Otter Woodall, A Collection of Reports of Celebrated Trials (London: Shaw & Sons, 1873).
♦ “IN CONVEYING THE MOVES, THE ELECTRICITY TRAVELLED”: John Timbs, Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts (London: Kent, 1860), 335.
♦ “WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT BUSINESS IS EXTREMELY DULL”: Quoted in Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers (New York: Berkley, 1998), 55.
♦ ALEXANDER JONES SENT HIS FIRST STORY: Alexander Jones, Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph, 121.
♦ “THE FIRST INSTALMENT OF THE INTELLIGENCE”: Charles Maybury Archer, ed., The London Anecdotes: The Electric Telegraph, vol. 1 (London: David Bogue, 1848), 85.
♦ “THE RAPID AND INDISPENSABLE CARRIER”: Littell’s Living Age 6, no. 63 (26 July 1845): 194.
♦ “SWIFTER THAN A ROCKET COULD FLY”: Andrew Wynter, “The Electric Telegraph,” 138.
♦ “ALL IDEA OF CONNECTING EUROPE WITH AMERICA”: Alexander Jones, Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph, 6.
♦ “A RESULT SO PRACTICAL, YET SO INCONCEIVABLE”: “The Atlantic Telegraph,” The New York Times, 6 August 1858, 1.
♦ DERBY, VERY DULL: Charles Maybury Archer, The London Anecdotes, 51.
♦ “THE PHENOMENA OF THE ATMOSPHERE”: Ibid., 73.
♦ “ENABLES US TO SEND COMMUNICATIONS”: George B. Prescott, History, Theory, and Practice of the Electric Telegraph (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860), 5.
♦ “FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES”: The New York