April 12, 2024
1866 George B. Prescott, History, Theory of Electric Telegraphy, Illustrated
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Book Description: George B. Prescott, History, Theory, and Practice of the Electric Telegraph, Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866, 508 indexed pages. Illustrated throughout. Gilt title on textured and embossed brown cloth. Minor fraying to cloth and spine and tips bumped. String binding. Ex libris. Binding a bit weak and pages yellowed but overall in fair to good condition, At the time of publication, Prescott was Superintendent of the Electric Telegraph Lines for W. U.. Chapter titles include Propagation of Electricity, the Morse System, Magnetism, the American Printing Telegraph or the Combination System, the Dial Telegraph, Subterranean and Submarine Lines, General Principles of the electric Telegraph, House's Printing Telegraph, Construction of Electric Telegraph Lines, Progress of the Electric Telegraph, Early Discoveries in electro-Dynamics, Galvanism, etc. A classic study by the early authority on the telegraph,
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