The preliminary bombardment began on October 27 and it grew in intensity day by day.

" It was Professor Gale who first called Morse's attention to the discoveries of Professor Joseph Henry, especially to that of the intensity magnet, and he thus describes the interesting event: "Morse's machine was complete in all its parts and operated perfectly through a circuit of some forty feet, but there was not sufficient force to send messages to a distance.

It marks a distrust of officialdom whose intensity officialdom would do well to ponder.