The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the n. Y, Jour. Of Commerce.
MORSE'S ELECTROMAGNETIC
TELEGRAPH.
n. Y. Jour. orCnmlnerce.

The complete success which has atten-
ded the working of this Telegraph, now IN
operation between Washington and Baltl-
more, has attracted public attention to 1t,
even in this busting city, and led to many
inquiries as to the method by which such
wonderful results are achieved 1t was for
tunate both for the inventor and the lnven-
ton, tina: the communication was COM
pleted between Washington and Baltimore
prior to the meeting Oft the Democratic Ma
tonal Convention, Qhe proceedings OF
which were awaited with so much interest,"
because an opportunity was thereby afford
ed to test the practicabllty and usefulness
of the invention, in the most ehcctual man
ner. BY means Of this Telegraph, every
new movement of the convention was made
known at Washington almost simultane-
ously with its occurrence; while with the
same rapidly, the proceedings OF Con-
gress were made known at Baltimore
The Washington Spectaior.of Wednes-
day said-
"The locomotive, with the mail, came
numbering along last night with the intel
ligence up to ) o'clock which had been re-
ceived here by the lightning express two
hours and previously"
In fact, by the electromagnetic Tee-
graph, Railroad speed is rendered COM
para,ively snail-lke,
Were this Telegraph extended, from Port
land to New Orleans, intelligence could
be transmitted the whole distance in
space oftime as short as is required to
transmit it from Washington to Baltimore;
or at least the difference would not be per-
ceptble. 1t is easy to sec that such tel
egraph would be Of great importance in
case of war. fla hostile fleet should make
its appearance off Portland, the fact could
be made known at New Orleans, or at any
intermediate station, in three minutes
Moreover this Telegraph can be worked
with the same facility and effect by night
as by day,-in stormy weather as in sun
shine, w ich is not the case with the tel
egraphs heretofore in use. The latter al
50 are worked but slowly, and at every sta
ton the process must be repeated, Not so
with this Telegraph. Suppose the commu-
nlcalion 10 be complete, single touch OF
the wire would send intelligence around the
globe. AT least this is probable, for Prof,
Morsc's experiments show that although
the power Of the magnet diminlshes for the
frs, ten miles, there is no percept bic dim
mutton afterwards, within the limits to
which the experiment has been extended
beyond the 10th mile viz, 33 miles, From
the 10Th to the SD mile inclusive, the
weight sustained by the magnet was con-
slant quantity. And the presumption is,
that the law holds good for any greater dis
lance. The scientific facts on which Prof.
Morse's invention rests, are thus stated by
committee of Congress:
First That current of electricity will
pass to any distance along a conductor con
Meeting the two poles Ola voltaIc battery
or generator of electricity, and produce
visible effects at any desired points on that
conductor.
Second. That magnetism is produced
in piece of soft iron (around which the
conductor, in ITS progress is made to pass
when the electric current is permitted to
flow, and that the magnetism ceases when
the current of electricity is prevented from
flowing. This breaking and closing the
galvanic circuit at the pleasure of the ope-
RAZOR of the Telegraph, who in this manner
directs and controls the operation of SIM
pie and compact piece of mechanism, s'yl-
ed the register, which is made to record,
at the point PERCEPTION, legible characters,
on roll Of paper put in motion at the
same time with the writing instrument
These characters, consisting of dots and
horizontal lines, the inventor has arrang-
ed into conventional alphabet, as follows:
ALPHABET. NUMERALS