History, theory, and practice of the electric telegraph (1866)
Prescott, George B.(George Bartlett),1830-1894 · Boston, Ticknor and Fields · leaf 300
that the line is wholeupon that side ; and if he gets none uponthe other, he cpncludes the line is down,and sends out a repairer to put it inorder. We will now suppose the line to bebroken between Hartford and NewHaven; each operator at his respectivestation puts on his ground wire, andascertains… … Fig. 83. 282 CONSTRUCTION OF TELEGRAPH LINES. repairer from New Haven; New Haven sends his repairer east,with the same instructions. The foregoing diagram (Fig. 83), represents the manner inwhich a circuit is divided into short circuits, when a break hasoccurred. In the diagram, the line having…
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