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The Savant Henry 

  It is a remarkable fact that history is slow in according and recording to the original discoverer of great and important [[strikethrough]] discoveries [[/strikethrough]] inventions his just and hard earned labors. In our own country this is emphatically illustrated in the subjects of the Electric [[strikethrough]] al [[/strikethrough]] Telegraph, and the weather predictions. It was well known to a comparatively few persons in this country many years ago that Prof. Joseph Henry was the inventor of the compound magnet to which the successful working of Morse's Telegraphic registering instrument [[strikethrough]] was due [[/strikethrough]] is mainly indebted. And without that invention, for which Henry might have secured a patent had he so been minded, the Electric Telegraph would be to this day, in the condition as it was found by Morse in the hands of Wheatstone, and as worked along the line of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, laid underground in glass tubes, and capable of a very limited [[linguil?]] designation through the movement of a magnetic needle upon its circular disc, having on its circumference a certain number of symbols.

  In nothing has Prof. Morse destinguished [[distinquished]] himself more, in the estimation of scientific minds, than in the acknowledgement he made at the inauguration of his monument in New York City, of the honor due to Henry for the discovery and invention of the magnet to which the successful working of the recording, or writing, instrument owes its efficiency.

  The whole story of its general usefulness is summed up in this. Henry invented the principle instrumentality. Morse applied it. Henry wrang [[rang]] the church bells in Princeton through the agency of his electrical wire and automaton

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