The Trinity times., 1855-08-04
Important Tclegrapbic Discovery.

A correspondent of the Newark .Adrertiser,
writing from Genoa, under date of llth Of
May, gives the following account of recent
and important discovery in telegraphing:
Bonelli's locomotive electric telegraph is,
at length, demonstrated. The problem was
solved under the patronage Of the Sandman
government, on the railroad between Turin
aud Monteaeri-a distance of six miles-on
the afternoon Of the 4th inst, when, for the
frs. time, q locomotive running at full speed
repeatedly exchanged messages with the sta
ton whence it started. The questions and
answers were varied and repeated during
numerous trips, without single fault, aud
the inventor finally announced his complete
success to the Minister Of Public Works at
Turin, from car running at the rate OF a
mile in two minutes. The ordinary wire line
is thus superseded by this dem, nstration of
the practicability of using the common iron
railway track rs conductor oI electricity gen
Grated by portable machine.
But this simple and ingenious invention of
Italian genius has still more important bear.
ing. BY means Of it not only may running
trains be instantly arrested by communca-
,
not only may the central and way y-side sta
tionary agents hold intercourse with them at
will, at any point of the rout. or in any stage
of their progress, but the opposite trains may
communicate al any moment, without regard
to distance or rapidity Of movement, with
each other, before or behind. Thus through
com uncatlOns between themselves, and
with the stationary agencies on the rOut, col
lisoas may be efftctualy prevented, and
warnings be given Of obstrucions or de-
rangements on the road. 1t would seem
impossible to desire anything more for the
security Of passengers; and you in the Uni
ted States know better than any other people
how 10 appreciate such security. This plan
OF converting railways into teegraphic lines,
and making the electromagnetic machine an
attachment and servant of the locomotive,
opens new and boundless prospects Of useful
ness for both, whilo it serves TO Indicate that
no limits eau he assigned to the progress of
human skill and science.
The electric loom recently INTRODUCED by
Chevalier Bonel, who is the Government
director of the Sandman telegraph, has al
ready made his name familiar among fhe
friends Of the useful arts, and this new fruit
Of his scientific studies cannot fail 10 win Cor
il the applause Of all who travel by rail-that
is to say, Of the civilized world. He has late
y received the medal OF the London Society
of Arts and Industry for the appl cation Of
electicl,y to .Iacqua DIS loom, which effects a
saving Of at least IS per cent. His method
Of operating with the railway telegraph is
not yet made public,
The Savoy railway, 20 connect the track
this side the A Ips with the Swiss and French
railroads, is now in the course Of construc-
ton. Over 1900 men and near 200 teams
are now engaged Oh It, and the connection
may possibly he completed in course of the
year. In another twelvemon,h we may
hope to have an uninterrupted railway com
mum cation between Paris and Genoa. We
are now ia ,elegrapic communication with
the island Of Cors ca aud Sardinia, by the
sub marine line, which acts admirably, and
with all the rest Of Europe by the coulinen-
tai lines.