BY ALFRED VAIL,
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF ELEC. MAG. TEL. FOR THE U. S.
CANST THOU SEND LIGHTNINGS, THAT THEY MAY GO,
AND SAY UNTO THEE, HERE WE ARE?—JOB.
“The same principle which justified and demanded the
transference of the mail on many chief routes, from the
horse-drawn coach on common highways to steam-impelled
vehicles on land and water, is equally potent to warrant
the calling of the electro magnetic telegraph—that last
and most wondrous birth of this wonder-teeming age—in aid
of the post office, in discharge of its great function of
rapidly transmitting correspondence and intelligence.”
REP. OF COM. OF WAYS AND MEANS OF H. R., 1845.
PHILADELPHIA:
LEA & BLANCHARD.
1845.
ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845,
By ALFRED VAIL,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States,
in and for the District of Columbia.