Personal Highlights:

• If all four cables were to fail, he said, the main span would not collapse. It would sag at the center, but it would not fall.
• Niagara was how to get a wire over the gorge and its violent river. Ellet solved that nicely by offering five dollars to the first...
• Once the kite string was across, a succession of heavier cords and ropes was pulled over, and in a short time the first length of wire went on its way.