Leading American Inventors
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Many a stubborn obstacle might confront him. He would overcome it. As his ship neared Sandy Hook he said to her commander, Captain Pell: " Well, Captain, should you hear of the telegraph one of these days, as the wonder of the world, remember the dis- covery was made on the good ship Sully. " Morse had unconsciously prepared himself, in more ways than one, for the task he now took up with a stout heart. His native ingenuity had been exercised in constructing his pump and his sculpturing machine.... From boyhood he had been drawing and sketching, so that, as the Sully bowled along toward New York, he drew rapidly and pre- cisely his plans for a telegraph. These plans, as then out- lined, are preserved in the National Museum at Washington. All his life his imagination had swept broad horizons, and he foresaw what mankind would reap by the instantaneous conveying of intelligence : the prospect spurred him day and night, and became a sheer obsession. On the practical side SAMUEL F. B. MORSE 139 of his project, he was happy, as no rival inventor was happy, in choosing as his servant the electro-magnet, with its force- ful grasp.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Many a stubborn obstacle might confront him. He would overcome it. As his ship neared Sandy Hook he said to her commander, Captain Pell: " Well, Captain, should you hear of the telegraph one of these days, as the wonder of the world, remember the dis- covery was made on the good ship Sully. " Morse had unconsciously prepared himself, in more ways than one, for the task he now took up with a stout heart. His native ingenuity had been exercised in constructing his pump and his sculpturing machine.... From boyhood he had been drawing and sketching, so that, as the Sully bowled along toward New York, he drew rapidly and pre- cisely his plans for a telegraph. These plans, as then out- lined, are preserved in the National Museum at Washington. All his life his imagination had swept broad horizons, and he foresaw what mankind would reap by the instantaneous conveying of intelligence : the prospect spurred him day and night, and became a sheer obsession. On the practical side SAMUEL F. B. MORSE 139 of his project, he was happy, as no rival inventor was happy, in choosing as his servant the electro-magnet, with its force- ful grasp.
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