New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-20

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CLARK Ei,iah d. brigham and Henry b. datAong y
Coupsel for complainant, T. O. J. Smith and b.
T. Curtis, Esqs.
coupsel for respondents, Geo. Clifford huids
Choste and Cbss l.. Woodbury., Esq'.
Charles L. Woodward, Esq. having yesterday
reviewed the history Of ts'egraPhc invenionf, etc
resumed. The testimony OF Leonard d. Gale, early
annotated with Mr. Morse in his labors, proves that
he discovered 30 mode OF overcoming the dlmlnu-
top Of power for long distances. He says il was
ouestion with them what was the limit Of the mag;
pstic power to move lever Professor Morse sug
ee,,ed no mode of overcoming OF dimlnution ex-
cen, that Of having batteries At short intervals and
n,ipe the same using the hrst 10 open and
hresk the circuit Of the second, to do the same
nv the third, and so on, and this has constituted
an essential part Of his plan from that to the pre-
,ent time; this was not overcoming the dliheulty,
bs. resorting to an expedent to get round it, 1t
involves expense as practical matter, and is not
preforable to the system Of visual telegraphs Inc
Testimony Of Professor Morse himself is to the same
purpose and he speaks Of his mode OF communl'
eating the impulse from one circuit to another,
ms bis discovery 10 eighteen thirtsseyen but Prot
Henry had demonstrated al this previously; bad
discovered the practicability of using one circuit
70 omen and close another, and Of producing great
mechanical effects at a distance indeed, been
shown another mode Of doing it by Prot. Wheat
stone. in England, in February, 1887. There
pertains to MoTses pretended invention both
the combined circuit, which our instrument does
not infringe, And the local or Office circalt, which
we 90 not use and which are essential 20 M0rses
plan. were not original with him. bat were taken
from Professor Henry. Professor Steinheil had
established telegraph 10 unite Munich 10 Bergen
hansen in 1897, with a method OF linked batteries.
Prof Morse has a disadvantage, that he cannot
transmit messages both ways, without four wires
suspended ia the air or buried 10 the ground, for
be had not discovered that the ground could be
made part Of the circuit. This discovery was
made by Others and was made ia 1887. Nj Morse
testified that the kep- York Observer making its
announcement of bis discovery, gave its own no.
tons Of the necessity Of numerous circuits bat that
he always aimed at a single circuit; but the draw
ipss connected with his patent show that he did
not arrive at it two years before Morse took out
his patent. Steinheil had discovered the use OF
the ground for bali the circuit, thus at once
dispensing with half the expense Of the oper.
atoms while up TO 1870 Morse had not dis
covered any means of connecting distant cities
By a single circuit The whole credit to what
Mr.. Morse, up to this date, processes to have dis
covered 10 due first 10 Professor Henry, and second
70 stenheD or rather to the electrician Gauss and
Weber In this mode the respondents do not use
anything that Morse has discovered but the single
wire Of sseinheil without any particular insulation
and no combined circuit or local circuits. If Prof
Nome claims new art, he should show mode by
which 1t can be practical but he early specifies as
his mode Of producing the gslvanic circuit gavan
10 battery, or any known generator OF galvanism,
ana NO generator was then known 10 hun adequate
to tslegraphic purposes in practical wsy. The
batteries he used in 1896 and 1897 were totally
unft FOR the purpose and 1t not until ls43 that
he used Groves battery, which was adequate. The
difBeulty with the common batteries is, that they
do not keep in working order but a short time,
and their supply OF the current is unequal The
sestisony Of scientific works abundantly prove
that Daniels d Lave had succeeded ia producing
constant and permanent battery. Telegraphing,
as an useful art could not exist Mr.. Woodbury.
here read sopiOus testimony this effect Mr.. Morse
also showed his extreme ignorance Of the subject
Of gslvanisn by stating that he used in ls47a
crookshanksb battery, with sulphrate of copper so
hilton, wlicb, according to the testimony of w r.
Claiming distinguished electrician, was totally
unit excitant having the effect Immediately to
coat the zinc plates with copper. The testimony
Of Professor siliman cited to the same effect,
when Morse used the term generator of galvan.
ism, or electricity" Hehad no means of that de.
ssnption 10 show, by which he could make his ma
chine useful be had nothing Of ypractics vauehe
essld communicate to the public; he stood before the
patent office ssmply with a grsphic register, and
circuit Of wire, without moving power to make them
available. He was in the situation of Scotchman
described by Sir Walter Scott who appeared be-
fore Border Lord, with two brides. and on the
strength of them claimed two horses across the
border. He has found the bits to fit two mouths,
and he goes abroad to get two horses, one of Stein
bell and one Of Gauss. He had them on the sub.
jet OF electricity, but the knowledge Of school.
boy not that Of the scientific men of the day-the
men Of the most science, Drs Jack son, Hare, Hen.
ny, Hubbard, Eddy, and others Not less than
nineteen witnesses, all wen acquainted with the
subject, write this point that what Prof Morse
describes the first part of his invention with the
single exception of the port rule and types, is not
new. The whole series Of scientific discoveries in
hieh the genius Of the thing is the work of others
There Is not single witness to the contrary. Mr.
Woodbury. went into an explanation of the differ
'noe between the horse shoe magnet with armature,
Ind the strsigh, magnet as both affected by the
galvsnic current through helix, and showed the
Of a strsight magnet 10 regard to the
'spidity with which oscillation can be procured, by
breaking and closing the circuit. He then de-
eribea the progress of Mr. Houses invention.
Arossh Green years Of experiment To come at an
,leetro magnetic force which could be sufficiently
apld in its action to control the movement of
rinting machine. totally distinct 10 that used by
iorse, adequate to our purpose, and which we
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