Sully

From the beginning he said, "If a message will go ten miles without
dropping, I can make it go around the globe."

And he said this again and again during the years that came after.

Sleep forsook him.

But one morning at the breakfast table he announced his plan.

He showed it to the passengers.

And five years after, when the model was built, it was found to be
like the one shown that morning on board the ship "Sully."