The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-06-20

the circuit thus at once dispensing With half the
expense Of the apparatus while to s4o Morse had
not discovered any Of connecting distant cities
by = single circuit. The whole credit to what
Mr.. Morse, up to this date: processes to have
discovered, Is due first to Professor Henry, and
second to Steinheil, rather to the electricians
Gauss and Weber In this mode the respon
dents do not thing that Morse has discovered
but the single wire Of seinhe without any particular
insulation and combined circuit or local circuits II
Prof Morse claims new art he should show mode by
which II can be practical bat he early specifics as his
mode Of producing the gavanic circuit, galvanc bat
terry, or any known generator of gavanism and no
generator then known to him to telegra
phic purposes in practical way The batteries used
in 1886 and 1887 totally unfit for the purpose and
it not until s43 that he used Groves battery which
was adequate. The difficulty with the common bate
res is that they do not keep in working order but
short time and their supply Of the current is unequal
that Daniels & Grove had succeeded in producing
constant and permanent battery. Telegraphing as
useful art, could not exist. Mr. Woodbury. here read
copious testimony to this effect Mr. Morse show
ed his extreme Ignorance Of the subject Of gavanism
by stating that he used, in 1867 Crookshanks bate
ry with sulPhrste of copper solution, which, accord
ing to the testimony of W Il. Claiming, distinguish
ed electrician totally unfit excitant, having the
effect immediately to coat the zinc plates with copper
The testimony Of Professor Silman cited to the
effect. When Morse used the term generator OF
galvansm,n electricity he had no means Of
that description to show by which he could make his
machine usofulhe had nothing of any practical value
he could communicate to the publc-he stood before
the patent Office simply with graphic register and
circuit of wire, without moving power to make them
available He in the situation of Scotahman des
Lord, with two brides, and the strength of them
claimed two horses across the border. He has found
the bits to TT two mouths and he goes abroad to get
two horses one Of Stenheil and one of Gauss He had
shown the Subect of electricity but the knowledge
OF schoolboy, not that Of the scientific men of TIE
daythe men OF the most science. Drs Jackson, Hare
Henry, Hibbard Eddy, and others. Not less than
nineteen witnesses all well acquainted with the sub
ject write this point, that what Prof Morse de-
scrihes as the first part OF his invention with the
single exception of the port rule and types
The whole series of scientific discoveries in which the
genius Ia he of Of hers her Ia
not single witness to the contrary. Mr.. Woodbury.
went into explanation of the difference between the
horseshoe magnet with armature, and the straight
magnet, rs both are affected by the galvanic
current through helix. and showed the
superiority of straight magnet in regard to the rap
dty by which oscillation can be procured by break
ing and closing the circuit He then described the
years Of experiment to come at electro magnetic
force which could be sufficiently rapid in its action to
control the movement Of printing machine totally dis
tnct to that used by Morse adequate tie our purpose
and which could not have had without inventing it,
By this form we enabled to stop revolving wheel
moved by other than magnetic power, at distance,
at any letter wish to print, and stopping il
leases another force which prints the letter The tes
timony of the able experts and mechanics have been
elaborate, ingenious, and admirable machine
known and that with all its nice complication of parts
1t contains nothing which is useless could be dis
pensed with.
At this stage of the proceedings, the learned coun-
sci exhibited the machine of House in actual opera
ton and the Court descended from the bench to
mine it. Mr.. Clifford having been longest acquainted
with IT, went into very lucid analysis OF It's move
ments and explained distinctly its transmitting and
receiving powers, after which, + q. j. Smith, Esq,
called the attention Of the Court to the intervention Of
condensed air between the electro and escape
ment that controls the type wheel and took the po
sition that IL useless and that the action might
have been produced directly.
Mr. Woodbury. then entered into more particular
explanation OF the very curious construction Of
Houses electro magnet which has the advantage not
only Of the most rapid magnetizstion but takes ad
vantage Of both attraction and repulson, by having
soft iron tube rather series Of such tubes,
at short intervals, enclosed in helix, and bar Of
soft iron within them which Is subjected axally to
both attraction and repulsion by Of collars
corresponding to ntersces between the tubes by this
means most msrvellously rapid oscillation is secured
through the space of the sxteth hundredth OF
inch. This Is found sufficient to answer the Pur-
pose BY accomplishing this great celebrity of oscl
lation, Mr.. House Is enabled to print with
great economy. Had he invented nothing new
but one dependent upon the other process OF the
magnetic circuit used by House his printing
machine would be OF no practical utility; but by Sc
curing great magnetic rapidity- than ave times
as grsathe is able to print faster than write;
this he has done by driving out the magnetic circuit
Mr.. Woodbury. had not concluded when the court
ad journed until tomorrow.
MIR. Clifford and Mr.. Choate win both succeed Mr..
Woodbury., but IL is not decided which will first