Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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