refused, 92-99
    interest of English gentlemen, effort for special act of Parliament,
      95, 124
    exhibitions in England, 96
    Russian contract, refusal of czar to sign it, 97, 120, 122, 136-138,
      147
    witnesses coronation of Victoria, 100, 101
    French patents, 103, 119, 132
    on birth and baptism of Comte de Paris, 103, 104
    exhibition at Institute of France, 104, 107, 108
    public and private projects in France, obstacles and failure, 105,
      109-120
    French enthusiasm over telegraph, 106, 107, 109, 111, 112, 114, 122,
      124
    discouraged, dark years and poverty (1839-43), 113-116, 135, 147,
      149-155, 157, 159-164, 169, 178-181
    correspondent for sender, 117
    better part of failures, 120, 181
    protection of wires from malevolent attack, 120, 123, 147
    and underground wires, 121
    and Daguerre, 128-130
    invention for reporting railroad trains, 132
    and principle of fire-alarm, 132
    and military telegraph, 132-134
    return to America (1839), 135
    and lack of effort by partners, 136-138, 147, 151, 165, 167-169, 178,
      181, 186, 196, 401
    experiments with daguerreotype, takes portraits, 144-146
    makes a business of it, 146, 152, 155
    takes first group picture (1840), 146
    Chamberlain’s exhibition of telegraph in European centers, 148-149
    rejects proposition from Wheatstone, 158
    renewed effort for congressional grant without result (1841-42), 164,
      166, 173-178
    proposals for private companies, 167, 173
    threatens to abandon invention, 167, 178
    Henry’s praise of telegraph (1842), 170-174
    obliged to make instruments himself, 174, 179
    experiment with submarine wires, 183, 184
    search for funds (1842), 184
    second exhibition before Congress (1842), consideration and passage of
      act to build experimental line, 185-203
    and Fisher, 185, 187, 196, 204, 210-213
    wireless experiment, 186, 187, 242, 243
    friends in Congress, 186, 189
    omen in finding statuette of Dying Hercules, 187
    congratulations, 201
    construction of experimental line, route, assistants, 204-206, 214
    wires, insulation, change from underground to overhead, 205, 208-210,
      214-216
    trouble with Smith, 206, 207, 212, 213, 216, 218, 219, 225
    prophesies Atlantic cable (1843), 208, 209
    on strain of construction, 217
    progress of line, messages during construction, 219-221
    ground circuit, 221
    completion of line, “What hath God wrought” message, 221-224
    reports of Democratic Convention, 224-226
    report on experimental line, 227, 228
    and on sounder and reading by sound, 457, 479, 480
  Career from 1844:
    price of offer of telegraph to Congress, 2, 86, 232, 235, 446