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258 THE RISE AND PROGRESS OJF TELEGRAPHS...
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The Next Electric Telegraph In Order Of ...
cal in its construction and working : two wires at present being employed After , and the in successful some cases working only one of . the mile and a quarter line , the
directors of the London and Birmingham Railway proposed to lay it down to the latter town , if the Birmingham and Liverpool
directors would continue it on their line ; hut they objected , and the telegraph received notice to quit the ground it already occupied .
Of course its sudden disappearance _would have branded it as a failure in most men's mindsand in all probability _* the telegraph
would have been put back many , years , had not Mr . Brunei , to his honordetermined to adopt it on the Great Western . It was
according , ly carried at first as far as West Drayton , i . e . thirteen miles : and afterwards to Slougha distance of eighteen miles . The
wires were not at this early date , suspended upon posts , but insulated and encased in an iron tube which was placed beneath the
ground The . telegraph hitherto had been strictly confined to railway
businessand in furtherance of this object , Brunei proposed to continue it to , Bristol as soon as the line was opened . Here again
the folly and blindness of railway proprietors threw obstacles in the way powers , which to public , however purposes , led ; to for an it is unlooked well to -for bear app in lication mind that of and its in
England telegraphs are of two descriptions , viz ., the commercial the railway . The latter are used for the purpose of sending communications relative to railway matterswhile the commercial are
employed for the transmission of public , or private messages at fixed rates or charges . They are mostly built near the railways ,
and in some cases a railway company will construct a line and give the use of it to a telegraph company , and as an equivalent the
latter lends its aid to expedite their business . But sometimes the that telegrap too h at is an laid expenditure down at the which expense is of onl the y another telegrap instance h company of , that and
economy , well understood in England , which knows how to make sacrifices bordering almost on prodigality in order to reap afterwards
with usury the fruits of its advances . At a general meeting of the proprietors of the Great Western
Railway , in Bristol , a Mr Hayward of Manchester got up and denounced the invention as " a new-fangled scheme , _" and _manag-ed
to pass a resolution repudiating the agreement entered into with the patentees . Thus , within a few years , we find the telegraph
rejected by two of the most powerful railway companies , tlie persons wlio above all others ought to have welcomed it with
acclamation . _^ To keep the wires on the ground Mr . Cooke proposed to
maintain it at his own expense , and was permitted by the directors to do soon condition of sending their railway signals free of charge ,
and , of extending the line to . Slough . In return he was allowed to
* See " Quarterly Journal , " for June , 1854 .
258 The Rise And Progress Ojf Telegraphs...
258 THE RISE AND PROGRESS OJF TELEGRAPHS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/42/
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