TAILIEUCHUNG - The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17

In the year 1844 electricity, last and mightiest of the servants of man, was seized and harnessed and made to do practical work. A telegraph line was erected between Washington and Baltimore. [Footnote: See Invention of the Telegraph.] In 1846 mathematics achieved perhaps the greatest triumph of abstract science. It pointed out where in the heavens there should be a planet, never before known by man. Strong telescopes were directed to the spot and the planet was discovered. [Footnote: See The Discovery of Neptune.] Man had found guides more subtle and more accurate than his own five ancient senses. The age of figures, the age. | The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 1 The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 17 by Charles Francis Horne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 17 Author Charles Francis Horne Release Date November 19 2003 EBook 10128 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT EVENTS 17 Produced by Juliet Sutherland Keith M. Eckrich Tom Allen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. VOL. XVII THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS A comprehensive and readable account of the world s history emphasizing the more important events and The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 2 presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians. Non-sectarian non-partisan and non-sectional. On the plan evolved from a consensus of opinions gathered from the most distinguished scholars of America and Europe including brief introductions by specialists to connect and explain the celebrated narratives arranged chronologically with thorough indices bibliographies chronologies and courses of reading. Editor-in-Chief Rossiter Johnson . Associate Editors Charles F. Horne . and John Rudd . With a staff of specialists CONTENTS of VOLUME XVII AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE OF THE GREAT EVENTS Charles F. Horne 1844 THE INVENTION OF THE TELEGRAPH Alonzo B. Cornell 1846 REPEAL OF THE ENGLISH CORN LAWS Justin McCarthy 1846 THE DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE Sir Oliver Lodge 1846 THE ACQUISITION OF CALIFORNIA Henry B. Dawson 1847 THE FALL OF ABD-EL-KADER Edgar Sanderson 1847 THE MEXICAN WAR John Bonner 1847 FAMINE IN IRELAND Sir Charles Gavan Duffy 1848 MIGRATIONS OF THE MORMONS Thomas L. Kane .

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