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Excerpt from Telegraph Engineering: A Manual for Practicing Telegraph Engineers and Engineering Students This book is intended for electrical engineering students and as a reference book for practicing telegraph and tele phone engineers and for others engaged in the arts of elec trical communication. It presents in a logical manner the subject of modern overland and submarine telegraphy from an engineering viewpoint, its theoretical and practical aspects being correlated. N o attempt is made to describe all telegraphic devices and to explain their operation, but rather to consider one or more representative types for the accomplishment of the various desired objects, thus per mitting a presentation of the subject matter in proper per spective. The book is the outgrowth of the course in Telegraph Engineering given by the author for a number of years at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.