ELECTRICITY ON THE JUMP. Receiving Messages on a Fast Running Train.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1887, Page 3

ELECTRICITY ON THE JUMP. Receiving Messages on a Fast Running Train.

A large party of prominent electricians took the 1.15 o'clock tram/ rom the Pennsylvania railroad depot in Jersey City recently to witness an exhibition given by the Consolidated Railway Telegraph Company of its now system of communication between moving trains. Special cars with metal roofs were usei in the experiments. An operator sat in, one of the cars, pn'^he traiii witl^a small keyboard in'hialap. A telephone, was' fastened to Ixis ' ear and a small" battery was' conveniently"' near.. Attached to the keyboard a'nd^ the telephone* were coils of .wire, one leading to the roof ot the-c^r 'and the other to the wheels and thence to the ground, !: forming 'a "grdurid wirel The roof wires pass, to a" brass clamp,' where they are, iSectirely fastened, , Along ifye line of tJieroad J;elegraph/pole3 had been er'6ci;'ecl,'and ( by'a'seemingly impossible, jittpp of fifteen feet the electricity, was lrsrißmitt&dt\!r6m,'tlip roof of the par to I wifesdn; thesepojea.^ The exhibition was" a success" in every rjespeqt. 'Some fifty qy fti'x'fcy tnsBsag.es woH' received, and sent Tjdiilq. \ ;jb,he', train 1 moved,'at|He"rati«.of miles* an ; i 1 Jlio&v} '.'anj^mg t #fc#i, V disßatc^-. frpm %,' 'Charles Sdi^o.h, $$$$?%?%, tef-fe^i M oe] kt *&