I have in detail the experiments of Bain and Wheatstone.

They were merely in effect repetitions of the experiments of Steinheil.

Their object was to show that the earth or water can be made one half of the circuit in conducting electricity, a fact proved by Franklin with ordinary electricity in the last century, and by Professor Steinheil, of Munich, with magnetic electricity in 1837.

Mr.Bain, and after him Mr.Wheatstone, in England repeated, or (to use the English editor's phrase) rediscovered the same fact in 1841.

But what have these experiments, in which _one wire_ is carried across the river, to do with mine _which dispenses with wires altogether_ across the river?
I challenge the proof that such an experiment has ever been tried in Europe, unless it be since the publication of my results.
The year 1844 was drawing to a close and Congress still was dilatory.
Morse hated to abandon his cherished dream of government ownership, and, while carrying on negotiations with private parties in order to protect himself, he still hoped that Congress would at last see the light.