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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 187, 19 April 1860, Page 4

Electric Telegraph without wires.— Mr. Lindsay, a teacher in Dundee, has been experimenting in electricity for more than twenty years, and several years ago brought before the public his theory of transmitting electricity through water without wires. It has been tried at Portsmouth ans elsewhere with perfect success to the distance of three quarters of a mile, and the only doubt was, whether the distance to America, which Mr. Lindsay thinks may be annihilated in this way, is not too great. He immerses two plates of metal on the one side, connected by a wire passing through a coil to move a needle ; and on the other side, as nearly opposite as possible, has a similar apparatus. He finds that only a very small part of the electricity transmitted reaches the other side, but that the greater the space of water is on each side- of the direct line across, the greater is the quantity of elec tricity that reaches its destination. At the meeting of the British Scientific Association in Aberdeen last autumn he read a paper on the subject, and according to the calculations made from his various experiments he thinks “ a battery of 160 sq. feet, immersed sheets of 3000 square feet, and a coil of 200 lbs., would be sufficient to cross the Atlantic with the lateral distance that could he obtained in Great Britain. If Mr. Lindsay’s ideas can be carried out, bis discovery will be one of the most remarkable of the age.