The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-03-06
"The Revolutionizing Element of the A9a,

| ihe heVo4uuonlzlng Element OF the AgeD
Chambers, in his Edinburg Journal for November
while describing Messrs. Brett & Little's Electric
Inventions, correctly calls the Lightning telegram
the fevolutionizing element of the present age %
for it annihilates both time and distance. The
New York Tribune asks, what would Dr. Franklin
have said had he lived to see his great idea thus
carried out9 Who can doubt but that, in a short
time, intelligence of Monday afternoons transac-
tions in San Francisco and Oregon on the Pacific,
and in Mexico and Vera Cruz, will be given to the
readers Of the New York city journals, by Tee-
graph, on Tuesday morning, unless long -con1in-
ued war should mar the onward progress Of sci
entifc improvement! Already the St Louis folks
talk of carrying the wires across the Rocky Noun
tains and the idea is easier followed up than that
of Whitney railway. His scheme would cost fifty
millions; O'Reilly's, for 400 miles of Telegraph
wires, only third of one million. There are those
who think that a Telegraph line from Upper Mis-
souri, to the mouth of the Oregon would be in dam
ger from the savages. Not more than from civil
lied folks, we guess.
If, in few years, New York orders for India and
China, and news from these places, shall be made
to pass overland between the Pacific and Atlantic,
In Jew hours, the connection will prove new
bond OF Union and Peace TO our country and to the
world
Chambers's Journal gives very full description
OF Brett d Little's Telegraphic Machine, which it
believes to be in advance of Wheatstone g. Cookies
or any other The number of wires required for
tie telegraph and bell are but two-one for each
undoubtedly vast improvement on systems that re-
qllre wire Tor each station. The Journal admits
that our language, as spelled, is cumbrous and
would like to see what Photography would do
for it,
We Were shown (says the editor into large
apartment, around the sides of which are ranged
all III communication with each other seventeen
teiegraphs In our mag lnation we belleld whole
line OF electric telegraph, with its seventeen sta
ions, compressed into one room. Ten coils equal
10 d M0u~nd miles, OF uninterrupted Wire. commnl-
nlcated between these telegraphs vet The distance
was as nothmg to the electric current; and the in
stailt the handle at one extremity touched. up
flew the indicator virtually distant ten hundred
miles In tins apartment noticeable a remark
ABLY useful little invention attached to the telegraph
called the Defector.'' 1t consists simply of a.
little handle, which either insulates or connects the
telegraph with the common wire of communica-
non mus II an instrument is deanged at one
station, this will not interfere in the least with the
others; the "defector'' is pulled down, and Lon
don can still talk with Birmingham, although VOL
verton, firing, and all the rest are disordered Two
or three instruments thus purposely put out of
order; the "deilector" was turned, and all went
on just as before. Two batteries, each containing
thlrty-sx pairs OF plates generated the power which
moved the Whole seventeen telegraphs through the
distance equivalent to thousand miles,"