Electric Telegraph Quotes
- A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of… — Arthur C. Clarke
- The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance… — Richard Owen
- Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw
- Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw