Excerpt from The Rail, and the Electric Telegraph: Comprising a Brief History of Former Modes of Travelling and Telegraphic Communication; With an Account of the Electric Clock, Etc;; With Illustrative Anecdotes and Engravings
The present age is so emphatically one of Railroads, and the public are so deeply interested in railway progression, that no greater or more moving social or commercial question can be well imagined to exist. The publishers, therefore, believe, they are performing an acceptable service in furnishing the general reader with an interesting account of the Rise, Progress, Use and Advantages of "The Rail," divested of all scientific verbiage, and rendered interesting and perfectly intelligible to all. The treatise on the "Electric Telegraph," comprises an account of the signals and arrangements at present adopted on all the principal lines; and it has been edited by men, whose eminence, both literary and professional, will be a sure guarantee for the excellence and correctness of its information.
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