ORIGIN OF TELEGRAPHS
INVENTOR DISCOURAGED. A portion of copper cable, used 1 in the earliest experiments in electric telegraphy, has been presented to the Science Museum at South , Kensington* ■ It has been buried in. the ground for well over 100 years. It was in 1860 that the electric telegraph was invented, and the inventor was a famous meteorologist, Sir Francis Ronalds. He offered the invention to the Admiralty, but its reply was that “telegraphs of any kind, are now totally unnecessary, and that no other than the one now in use will be adopted.” The telegraph “now in use” was a semaphore telegraph. Ronalds’ invention was a real practical one, though it took rather a long time to transmit messages. This would doubtless have been remedied had he continued to work at tlie idea, but the Admiralty’s reply discouraged him, and he turned his attention to other subjects.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1930, Page 11
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