MEMOIRE SUR LA TELEGRAPHIE ELECTRIQUE. HI 



I found a period of leisure, which I employed in 

 putting together for publication my experiences on 

 telegraphic communication and apparatus. In April 1850 

 I laid my work, with the title "Memoire sur la tele- 

 graphie electriqzie" , before the Paris Academy of Sciences. 

 This had been rendered possible to me through a 

 lucky accident, which enabled me to meet in Paris my 

 friend du Bois-Reymond. who intended to present a 

 work of his own to the Academy, and gave me his 

 friendly assistance for the French remodelling of my 

 essay. I still remember with great satisfaction the 

 stimulating, and to me extremely interesting and in- 

 structive, time of this four weeks sojourn in Paris, the 

 living together with friend du Bois, and the intercourse 

 with the most celebrated Paris savants. To the members 

 of the committee appointed by the Academy for con- 

 sidering my work belonged Pouillet and Regnault. 

 The report on my memoir was read by Regnault at 

 a sitting of the Academy, to which du Bois and I had 

 received formal invitations. Leverrier appeared as 

 opposer. and defended the electro-chemical telegraph 

 of Bain, which had likewise been presented to the 

 Academy. The presiding secretaire perpetttel Arago 

 however cut short Leverrier 1 s opposition by moving 

 the thanks of the Academy for the memoir and its 

 reception in the "savants etr anger s" . 



This public testing of my literary firstling in the 

 telegraphic domain by famous members of the first 

 scientific tribunal in the world produced a deep and 

 very stimulating impression upon me. Many reasons 



