Never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before,' said the Professor, ' as when all alone in the still room I heard the needles click, and as I spelled the words I felt all the magnitude of the invention, now proved to be practical beyond cavil or... Peeps Into the Human Hive - Page 89by Andrew Wynter - 1874Full view - About this book
| 1870 - 624 pages
...partner at the Camden Town station touched the keys. ' Never did I feel such a tumultuous sen' sation before,' said the Professor, ' as when all alone in...operation at Munich, but it was not workable, and he afterwards abandoned it for a form of instrument invented by Morse of New York ; but to Steinheil... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 568 pages
...with the extinction of man himself. Mr. Cooke in his turn touched the keys and returned the answer. ' Never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before,'...now proved to be practical beyond cavil or dispute.' The telegraph thenceforward, as far as its mechanism was concerned, went on without a check, and the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 568 pages
...with the extinction of man himself. Mr. Cooke in his turn touched the keys and returned the answer. ' Never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before,'...now proved to be practical beyond cavil or dispute.' The telegraph thenceforward, as far as its mechanism was concerned, went on without a check, and the... | |
| 1892 - 916 pages
...realised. 'Never,' said Professor Wheatatone — 'never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before, as when, all alone in the still room, I heard the...now proved to be practical beyond cavil or dispute.' It was in 1032, during a voyage from Havre to Xew York in the packet Sully, that Mr SF B. Morse, then... | |
| Andrew Wynter - Essays - 1860 - 554 pages
...with the extinction of man himself. Mr. Cooke in his turn touched the keys and returned the answer. " Never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before,"...now proved to be practical beyond cavil or dispute." The telegraph thenceforward, as far as its mechanism was concerned, went on without a check, and the... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...successful. " Never," says one of the inventors, " never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before, as; when all alone in the still room, I heard the...all the magnitude of the invention, now proved to be practicable beyond cavil or dispute." Another instrument, most extensively employed, is the recording... | |
| James Hamilton Fyfe - 1863 - 272 pages
...line of senseless wire. " Never," said Wheatstone, " did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before, as when all alone in the still room I heard the needles...all the magnitude of the invention now proved to be practicable beyond cavil or dispute." A few days before this trial of the telegraph in London, Steinheil,... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1864 - 396 pages
...Mr. Charles Fox and Mr. Stephenson Mr. Cooke in his turn touched the keys and returned the answer. ' Never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before,'...now proved to be practical beyond cavil or dispute.' The telegraph thenceforward, as far as its mechanism was concerned, went on without a- check, and the... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1866 - 390 pages
...Charles Fox and Mr. Stepheuson. .... Mr. Cooke in his turn touched the keys and returned the answer. ' Never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before,'...now proved to be practical beyond cavil or dispute.' The telegraph thenceforward, as far as its mechanism was concerned, went on without a check, and the... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1867 - 614 pages
...tumultuous sensation before, ' as when in that still room I heard the needles click ; and as I ' spelled out the words, I felt all the magnitude of the invention ' now proved to be practicable beyond cavil or dispute." Wheatstono and all concerned might well exult in this triumph... | |
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