Aug 16, 2018
From our stacks: Poem ‘The Ocean Telegraph Predicted’ from Electron; or, The Pranks of the Modern Puck: A Telegraphic Epic for the Times. By William C. Richards. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1858.
I like the idea of this book, a kind of poetic history of the electron, more than I like the actual poetry. ;P
Oh, and the idea had already been tossed around since about 1840.
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