The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-01
NEW AND IMPORTANT INVENTION
MAGNETIC PRINTING TELEGRAPH.

"The application Of this hidden and mysterious power to
the purposes of the pid transmission OF Intelligence yet
its infancy There is now in this city telegraph moved
by the power OF clectromsgnetsm which performs that
which in boyish days we would not have believed II
we had OF 1t in the Arabian Nights We have
specimen Of printing done with the usual alphabet and
ogble the child the ceares type, which
ted at end Of magnetic wiIe through direction Civ
en- al the other 1t is trueas incredible the statement
may seem be--hat a man might II the uirts laid
no ST q Nse York and na !, more n,sPidy TER our S.s'
patch in NE ordinary letters Fl our Language
In days this invention will be made more general
y known when will be at liberty speak of Il
fully. At present arrangements making for the peec
ton OF the patents here and in Europe. The telegraph IL
self have not and, in making statements It'll
gard to IT, obliged to speak little incauously from
hcarsay But as far as our inquiries CO. there no reason
to doubt that have been made to
this subject; and the practcahy OF the thing itself
now ii has been discovered carries mprobnbiy upon
the face Of It, need not be questioned The effects of this
invention can hardly be anticipated The substitution Of
the usual alphabet for the hierogyphios Of Morses ele
sf be mos, wonderful discoveries Of The ageN Yopi
Erenine Post
II is, indeed, great and wonderful age--and we
would almost say, with old Franklin, that eve have
come thousand years too soon" We ore proba-
bly, on the first step of the immense progress Of
the Telegraphic invention. Who shall say,
" thus far shalt thou go, and no farther :" II
is an age, when, not content with dealing with
solid and with fluid bodies, man sezes hold Of the
aariform gases, and the subtes Of our sys-
TEN, to extend his empire, and enlarge the sphere
Of the arts and sciences. Steam, the rapid lightning
and the galvanic fluid, are now invoked TO his assist
ance.
The principle of Morse's telegraph is IN itself an
immense physical power. 1t almost startles us by
the novelty of the application, and the rapdty of its
execution. On Saturday evening, as we stood con-
versng, in the telegraph office, with the agents at
the other end of the wire, it almost appeared us
that the ladies' and gentlemen around us were in the
presence of the men in Baltimore; that we saw their
faces, and heard their breahngs, and were convers-
ing with them face to face
But when we passed from the telegraph Office, on
the same evening, to the Patent Office, and Witnessed
the new improvement of DIR. Page-how, by the
revolution Of his magnetic wired cylinder gavanc
influence was instantaneously produced, THAT we
dispense with the galvanic battery and may put the
telegraph in motion, as was done at Christmas--we
confess we can see no bounds TO its power With
Dr. Pages most ingenious machine, he melted plati-
mum, fired gunpowder, and produced powerful mag
net, by which it may be possible to raise immense
weights. We felt as one of the most accurate cit
liens of Washington assured us that he had felt
awe-strcken by the exhibition. Combine this ma
chine with the ",nagnelic printing Telegraph" and
where are the bounds TO the facility and extent OF
communication
We hope to have the pleasure Of giving, in day