No other man has touched the apparatus of telephony at so many points.

He fought down the flimsy, clumsy methods, which led from one snarl to another.

He found out how to do with wires what Dickens did with words.

"Let us do it right, boys, and then we won't have any bad dreams"-- this has been his motif.

And, as the crown and climax of his work, he mapped out the profession of telephone engineering on the widest and most comprehensive lines.
In Carty, the engineer evolved into the educator.