It is a neck and neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is so that I have an advantage there.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man is what he makes of himself.
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.