Show f romances of Pro progress 0 aress by bv altert payson Ter terhune hutie ROBERT FULTON the man who beat bad luck on one day da in 11 brot a pat palt wa limn mun iab i shock of dark hair landed in fit 1 wk oi it wan was it fallan hit int tn aeller carlier ar ller full of high hupf md art ittia he bud butt malloon for eakland hild tu to OM PItt hid his an as 11 tilt painter aws netti had reached his bl Illi niniva tive laud land that the young artist wl 44 foolishly abandoned hid his chosen linda union and had set et to work ork on om tile t ray rally Inh lut anical contrivance aich uj only prove and later N showed ili the truth of then liars for young hobert robert nilton PAs returning rt to hie him native lami land poor and dd bullo MUI aus the son on of nn an irish lin aa ali a boy lie divided ill vide his lar ini between painting pic picture and nd II biking king toy toys tt t it fit hr hull eaid Mie eil R paddle wheel that could bp he atta hold tu to a io bolit eid rind by haal hand t 17 lie turne turned ai 11 his attention to art and rind as iwon As IK ill t raise 1 the tile mone he ent to clinti ito to stud under tinder Ile ideiil U PHI emt hut flat while there he lie tit t set eral british scientists lilts and ill lit their avld gale gae up art for mechanic lie ill beame a it friend of james matt alt an ant I 1 made 1 i clone clove study of thi latter 1111 tani ani engino ahen it was that the tho great ida of hie ills life cattle to he lie as the sort of 0 who ho littral ly IY gioles ideas all of tin thim ni were vere of a anical nature Nl clotille in eakland lie boll ed slit I 1 ort himself by biting appa sought to hep help ratus for making napoleon 6 envy ropes I 1 hen ile dell dellet pt the first marint outdo and fill it a boit tor for navil ho lie vent went to u which aas thou it war with ingland ami atilt tried to Inter interest Nirol con in lit those ke ile no fir that it lit was ana al tit lowid to hoxit thin thi in before ft a compola eloa sion though the submarine boat remain under tinder water for fourr alid could b gul bulled led at will ill it speed aas ag slow 1 and it could mide m ide no prop ress the current so the french rejected reject pd it next he atis is ordera to launch hia his borle tori do dohs doa a at the british fleet off direst tho the projectiles failed to do any damage tha tho laughing stock of all europe the disappointed american re return turrI 1 to new lork ork ilia ills friend kobert alv ingston if lint lit him ill engligh money to make ono one more inore trial at the he sent to P angland for one of NN catle att 0 engines and rind profiting ting by hia his own fur for roer mer mt started work on hit his new tie and pt canier it WB MRS built in an east river it 11 us tomary for crowd it to A mit unit A lit atti it the aurre of f the ali boat a lion ulton fulton l christened 11 it U the k it amont hut but it 11 A as a popularly known n as a pulton Fulton ot poll Itil nilton toll himself liln relf added to this ridicule by prophesying that in A it few par a steamboat would tw be abl to crow crogg tir the tia litle such a forecast fur want was wa derided am shot 1 r in sanit t lut last on august 11 1807 1801 the tile kiermont ri ermont WM was end and martell 1 on her maiden trip to albany all ev ew nork ork turned out to make full nn of abe 1 weerd boat nd lu libolt 0 1 iho clermont Clerin oitt hg wait worthy lie the derision derli loii ithe he excited she ab lil hall it keel and arid wae was 14 1614 ft bitle A I title moke mark stock fully HO so feet atme from fron bpi deck and lier tier twin twaddle ial dle fleet looked like lie the amali t if f ft windmill As sho ho moved through die file arr inter an am ilia labiche of sparks 11 II 0 and atilt bialk smoke poured io urd from tile stack and the ali coir of tin the inachin machinery Iry arid paddle puddle be ile lioard heard for lullah still sh kab a success fulton was vin bild now the Invin inventor tor who hall bun looked on oil ns a harmless crank was the nation lit luro ro ho lie built became in a day 0 ther and tir trl the Nat nation tl ioni c ste tin bonts in lit ernp hero cro id tn in 1812 ho lie the first starn a ferry terry I 1 to oil it amo year years inbur he lie enado the tile first stain a frigate lilton fulton the first and bonora bt b gait to pour in on him hut rut just aa as lie was about to reap alj alio kinrd of his ills marx of toll ind misfortune he lie found hie tile pat patties tits nud bitanie ln liti oled olied in a it biazo of insults IA hv suite moat most of these lat tir tor he lie lost ilia ills wind anil anti nature and his ilia pulse pin BO depleted by litigation atlon hie his health undermined by from front corking int out of doore doors in hia tits ship ard ard during bad ful put ion on clid tn in 1815 hen hn only 49 40 year years old he ile vae was hurld burld in n trinity church ird irti new nork ork a carfo konu inet his 1 ance 1 won erected over hie his klave gi aye he lies madany between the two chri every one of 0 whose stencil craft Is a more sublime to his hi inela 0 ory ry I 1 than h an any jiffy 1 nau 8 0 it inn chica mor tal bands could raise above it t e brave grave of ho he n an who ho did so much for or rems anti altom hom him felloe fellow country men rear bearded ded mith rid linie tile and in ili justice C op ra gh t ed SAMUEL MORSE the man abolished time and space an american artist coming homo in 1832 after a it successful career is painter and sculptor in europa amused amual ed his fellow passengers during tho the voyage by explaining to them a thirry lie was working out the artist was samuel 11 II P morse a new I 1 ti ng lander glander who had been graduated fro fron it yale at 18 and had bad like robert pulton pone to england to study art under Il enjamin ast in ilia spire spare moments lie dabbled for recreation in electrical experiments on the home bound ship he had met a dr jackson mho ho hid irid ant listed him blell further in thie this subject the theory with which moree morse entertained the oth er passenger passengers ana aa as follows follow it has been proved that thit an dec clec curr current crit will pass instantaneous ly along a wiro wire of any length if it tills current Is interrupted at any point a spark will appear why not let such a or cepro sent some part of a litter later number or other bound sound symbol the passengers laughed at the odd notion and anti most of them soon forgot it bilut 1 morge wae was so captivated by he the idea that ho he threw over his artis 1 tic career and BPI set to work at ome one on rin tho electrical invention which lie called the electro IMP graph he ile hie tits incan 11 of livelihood by doing thia this for four fira r he worked in poverty and want and at the end of that time his anven tion vae mas complete com te then lie be petitioned congress for an appropriation in order that lie might put lp an experimental line from dal to the request v was refused long struggle then he merit to with congre congress i angl a ind and tried to his invention he ile fallia kor nor would othir fur european Fu countries count rit assist bini iver I vera ver ono one ed ell to look on the telegraph as a itse lost impracticable fantasy hack to america came come morse and once more wore want to washington hero ht lid moved heaven henen and earth to get congress u to appropriate for the tel raph hia ills efforts seemed in eln ain and on the last evening congram as in tse Rolon 1 in 1813 he went to his bigings heartbroken and without ie je this was wa the loveit lowest ebb of bis fortun without prospects pro propels pets penal lees less more than 00 60 years old tits hi in bention everywhere lie deemed 0 to o he ono one of the con cont turre abject failures harly next morning a young girl 11 called to gre soe him she was wail tho the daughter of the of 0 pat ats and she he brought the discouraged laveri inventor tor glorious news at midnight I 1 imort on the minute of adjournment bad had voted toted morse be the the he mark ork of building tho the line from ol hington to baltimore was began at once in a acar it was in may lay 1844 the first via sent itwara it as dictated I 1 ho file girl who had brought morse bews of thy the appropriation arid it nod rind mint hat hath god wrought now sow that the achime me as so hunt a success it waa as at nt once adopted all over the world orld hut but dr jackson who bad had tall talked ocol over the subject with morse on shipboard so roan man year years before now brought suit claiming credit for all the tile latter had accompli accomplished ead the atilt unlike ro po many in which progress makers have been ene erga ergard agid gd waa was in morse morses faor henceforth hib file way may ane its smooth I 1 ui countries raised raise for him it testimonial of and wealth and honor honors poured in from front all elius now how that it wag as found easy to telo graph across limitless liLs of land tile next stop was as to attempt lio lie laying of telegraph tel graph wires under tinder water atar it vaa ads found that by insulat ilig thebe wire wires a cable could he ile laid under the 11 ch cli annl from ina in land to arane then camu came the idea of the tho atlanta cubic cable that niso also with morse but lit 1 re agan a it nem of tit setbacks ept backe and denap point ments that tol on for many arm two large steamers twice tried to stretch ft a cable across the at lantic alantic and both jimca tho the cable roke cyrus W held who wan anti the chief promoter of tho the scheme would not glie gho up evan in the face of thieo re prated disappointments through hie his efforts a third an atlantic cable i was a at arble at la lat st tempted and this time was as canad easely across the orean I 1 communication was d A monster ovation wae an planned in vicia a honor hut on ell the tile viry day it wae mas to occur the cable again collapses for sevin years nothing wore was man done rhe project wae was a as yet field did not at laet last in asco the first arat permanent pennan perman int tnt and practicable lino line ane as laid hut but to morse above all others praise for telegraphy if it due he fe made no 0 original ele ehk in pirt various other men trien whit be wan was perfecting hie his machine wade made wore or lee less futile experiments along 1 the same line hut but it remal rud nd lor for dorme to combine alt all previous electric invert lions and discoveries arid put them to 0 o their brut first treat practical uses lie ifs to pee that little strand of wire which in ili jaa stretched stretch led between two nearby cities e ednd tand until tit it had un knit the whole world in ono one mighty bond that rev mutton I 1 zed corn com merce dewe news and itself and bud forever annihilated time and not space copyrighted |