THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FORESHADOWED.
ArtHUB Young, travelling in 1877, writesln the evening, at Paris, to M. Lomond, a very ingenious and inventive mechanic. In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery. You write two or three words on a paper; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top o£ which is an electrometer—a small fine pith ball. A wire connects it with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions or t e
ball, writes down the words they indicate ; from which it appears that e has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on at any distance, within and without a besieged town, for instance ; or for a purpose much more worthy, and a thousand times more harmless, between two lovers prohibited or prevented from anv better connection. Wha'ever the use may be, the invention is beautiful. M. Lomond has many other curious machines, all the entire work of his own hands ; mechanical invention seems to be in him a natural propensity.”—London Society.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 18, 6 December 1883, Page 4
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