Excerpt from A History of Electric Telegraphy, to the Year 1837 India, where, having a good deal of spare time on our hands, we indulged our habits to the full. In 1871, having amassed a large number of notes, scraps, &c., on submarine telegraphy, we began a work on the history and working of the Persian Gulf cables, of which we had then had over three years' practical experience. Gradually this developed itself into an ambitious treatise, which we styled Submarine Telegraphs, their Construction, Submersion, and Maintenance, including their Testing and Practical Working. Of this some three hundred pages (foolscap) are now lying submerged in the depths of our trunk, to be, perhaps, recovered at some future day - if, haply, they do not share the fate of our History of Ruins! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.