Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 38
rs fed by some generator ofelectricity. He devised a system ofsigns, which was afterwards improved into the Morse alphabet, consistingof dots or points, and spaces, to represent numerals. These were impressedupon a strip of ribbon or paper by a lever which held at one end a pen orpencil. The paper… … MORSE TELEGRAPH AND BATTERY. 28 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY
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