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THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF TELEGRAPHS. 25*...
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The Next Electric Telegraph In Order Of ...
try an electric telegraph . " Lord Melville was obliging" enough , "• sMr . Honalds"in lto lication to himto request Mr .
Hay ays to see me on , the subject repy of my my d app iscovery ; but before , the nature of it had been known , except to the late Lord Henniker , Dr . Rees ,
Mr . Brande , and a few friends , I received an intimation from Mr . _Brande , to the effect ' that telegraphs of any hind _zvere then wholly
adoptedJ unnecessar 1 I y , felt and that littl no e disappoin other than tmen the t" one he con then tinue in s use " _tvoidd not be a
shadow of _resen very tment on the occasion , because , every one , knows that telegraphs have long been great bores at the Admiralty . Should
they again become necessary , however , perhaps electricity and electricians may be indulged by his lordship and Mr . Barrow with
an opportunity of proving what they are capable of in that way . ' In 1827 Harrison Grey Dan Americanconstructed a telegraph
at the race , -course on Long Island , , and supported , his wires by glass insulators fixed on trees or poles . From that period to 1837 , we
have no less than eleven different telegraphs , and in 183 7 six different arrangements of this instrumentexclusive of the one patented
, The by Messrs deflective . Cooke telegrap and h Wheat was stone introduced in the in June to Russi of the a In same 1822 year by .
Schilling ; at Gfottingen , by Gauss and Weber , in 1830 ; and into Munich in 1837 by Steenhul . In 1844 the registering _telegraph
of Professor Morse , employing the electro-magnet , was introduced between Baltimore and "Washington . In America as far back as
1852 there were no less than fifteen thousand miles of wire erected and in constant use in that countryat which time we were using the
old aerial telegraph on one line , at least , viz ., between Liverpool and Holhead !
The first y electric telegraph worked in England was on wires laid clown between the Euston Square and Camden Town stations : and
late in the evening of the 25 th of July , 1837 , in a dingy little room near the booking office at Euston Square , by the light of a flaring
dip candle which simply made the darkness visible , sat Professor Wheatstone witli a beating pulse and a heart full of hope . In an
equally small room at the Camden Town station , where the wires terminatedsat the co-patenteeMr . Cooketogether with Mr . now
Sir Charles , Fox and Mr . Stephenson , . , These gentlemen listened with intense anxiety to the first word
spelt by that trembling tongue of steel which will only cease to discourse with the extinction of man himself . Mr . Cooke in his turn
touched the keys , and returned the answer . " Never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before" said Professor Wheatstone"
when all alone in the still room , I heard the needles click ; and , as I spelt the words I felt all the magnitude of the invention , now
proved to be practical beyond cavil or dispute . " The telegraph thenceforwardso far as its mechanism was concernedwent on without a
check ; and , the modifications of this instrument , which , is still in use ,
have only been made for the purpose of rendering it more economi-
The Rise And Progress Of Telegraphs. 25*...
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/41/
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