A YOUNG ENGINEER AND SPIRIT-RAPPING.
Air W. E. Sykes, who invented what is practically the automatic system of signalling now being generally introduced, has been giving the “Railway and Travel Alonthly" an account of the amusing incident that suggested “track-circuiting” to him. When' a boy of seventeen he attended a spirit-rapping seance at Covent Garden. He found- that the table stood upon two brass rails running across the stage, and immediately suspected electricity. Taking a piece of insulated wire, the ends of which were open, ho laid it across the two brass rails, and tho spirit ceased to rap! Tears after, when W. R. Sykes was a signal engineer, this early experiment of his in track-cir-cuiting came to his mind, and he forthwith made use of the principle for the protection of trains.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7871, 5 August 1911, Page 12
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133A YOUNG ENGINEER AND SPIRIT-RAPPING. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7871, 5 August 1911, Page 12
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