Historical sketch of the electric telegraph : including its rise and progress in the United States (1852)
Jones, Alexander, 1802-1863 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 43
e detached, and only the visible let-ters read. The action of the electricity in this telegraph is merely toproduce correspondence of motion in machinery at differentends of the line, in the same manner that uniformity of ratehas been secured in clocks at different places, regulated by… … Bain3 Telegraph. Bains Telegraph.—The decomposition of a metallicpoint in contact with chemically prepared paper, by the action THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. 27 of an electrical current, lias already been referred to. Thetelegraph of Bain, represented in the cut on p. 26, is con-structed on this…
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