TELEGRAPH ANTICIPATED.
NAIVE ACCOUNT IN 1780. The subjoined extract has been, it seems, an interesting anticipation of one of the most beautiful of modern inventions, and may be found in a work entitled "Travels During the Years 1787-1789 in the Kingdom of France," by Arthur Young. "In electricity, M. Lomond has made a remarkable discovery : you viite two or three words on a paper ; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a ••yiindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small, fine pith ball ; a witfe connects with a similar cylinder land electrometer in a'distant apartment ; and his wife by remarking the corresponding motions of the' ball, writes down the words they indicate,' from which it appears . thai he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence may be carried on at any distance, within and without a besieged town, for instance, or, for a purpose more worthy and more harmless, between two lovers prohibited or .prevented from better connection." -*■ ■■■>
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Northern Advocate, 27 January 1906, Page 6 (Supplement)
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