Samuel thought of the many powers that electricity had. He had many ideas of how to use it. Samuel knew that Benjamin Franklin's early tries would quickly pass over a wire.

When the Sully dropped anchor on November15, 1832 , he saw his two brothers. Samuel took from his pants a pad in which he had drawn blueprints. “It will work he told his brothers and the world will be astonished at the speed with which messages can be sent by electricity .”