The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1858-10-09

through which The e~lecffict
in obtainingit present peytec.iun, W
interesting 1t Elbows. that to q lar
are due portions Of the credit -
l726.-An Englishman, named -
covered that the electric fluid CO kSh
Quoted long distances by wires. H..
l746.LHerr Wirikler, of Leipsic, rgee
a Leyden jar by a friction machine, gh
wire Of considerable length, the rN fiei
forming partFof his %circait, e 4 M,
l74f.-Dr. Watson made a success lexperl
ment of u similar character, over space Q
four miles. at Schooter's Hill, " lIo"don
embracing his circuit Of two mile; wire ans
Of equal distance of ground. A r. IN 10!
Philosophical Transactions (vols n" ls4s.
gives him the credit OF having bee ihe flrst Z
suggest the application Of elect ivy 70 1ele
graph purposes. w
1748.-Dr. Franklin set fire 4 hirlts by 81
electric current sent across the : ms XVI ON :
wire and allowed it to return bsfthe Eyer ane
earth.
I774@M. Iesage, of Geneva, cotlarnctet
an electric telegraph, consisting of twenty-fonl
wires, each properly lnsulated. and terminating
ut one end. either was put into communities
tion wi h the prime conductor Of an electrical
machine, the ball was repealed, and a CORES
poading ietterthus indicated.
l7S4.-M. Lompnd, of France, comasdni
Gated telegraph signals to d neighboripy room
by means of a potato ball electromGer acted
upon by eleesricity.
We 6nd Y record Of it in the Anthologia
Htbernica, for September, 1894, vol. a, pub.
lished in Dublin.
In electricity VI. Losinond has made a re.
,nr-o bla Jisa.,.nru, .,n,,- n,u;tn. ..,o RI. tl,rer
words on a paper he takes it with him into q
room, and runs a machine iilclosed in a cylin-
drical case, at the top Of which is an electro
meter, a small fine pith ball d wire connects
with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a
distant apartment, and bis wife, by remurking
The corresponding motions of the, ball, writes
down the words they Indicate, from which it
appears that be has formed an alphabet Of mo-
tions. As the length Of the wire mikes no
difference in the effect, a correspondence might
be CARRIED on to any distalce--wiihin and
without a besieged town for instance-or for a
purpose much more worthy, and a thousand
times more harmless. between two lovers pro-
hibiled or prevented from any better connec-
tion.' III IN
M. REESE Illuminated letters npon plate glass,
formed Of tin foil. BY means of electricity.
l195.--M. Clasa'o proposed TO form an
electric telegraph by firing a gas pistol at the
distant end Of a wire, and thus to give signals.
Nj. savary attributes the first idea OF all
electric Telegraph To Dr.. Franklin.
u.s. Betancourt established a telegraph
between Madrid and Araniiez. a distance If
twenty-five miles through which a current Of
electricity was passed aud gave Signals for
letters.
fS09.-Somesing constructed the first gal
vatic telegraph at Munich, which operated BY
the decomposition OF water. and which be also
caused to ring u bell ut the opposite end Of
the wire. S mei.ings was the first dlconpo-
sition or chemc Telegraph, and can be even
now successfully, bat less raildly, worked than
Bans.
lSl6.-Dr. John T2edman Coke, of Phila-
delpbia, proposed TO establish an electric tele-
graph. and 10 make signals at a distance. by
The decomposition Of water und metallic salts,
catlsing a change in color 10 epstle. *
E lSl9.-Professor Persied, of Copenhagen,
discovered electric mag setism, or electric mag
netic motion.
lS2o.-M. tAmpere, OF France discovered
he electro magnetic telegraph. This he con.
stf,icted OF as many wires as there we're letters.
and used the reflection of The needle as u sig
mai. He broke and renewed the circuits by
hhger keys,rsoneihing similar to those of the
keys OF IA pianofortc. PR
.lS23-Francis Renalds, of England, pro.
posed a telegraph by the use of FRACTIONAL elee-
triclty. In his arrangements there were clocks
at the station which kept time with each other.
and which were furnished with a light disc of
cyphers in place Of hands, having twenty DIFF
fereht signs towards their circumference. AT
the m the proper sign Oh the disc passed
before the index at one station. the spark was
discharged, aud the electromeler placed at The
other discharged, aud caused the signs on the
disc at the other to be noted. The telegraph
is stated to have extended to Hammersmith
eight miles, and t" have used the discharge of
a gas pistol as all alarm.
lS23.-Mr Barlow, Of Greenwich, England.
made an attempt to put a gaivauic telegraph
IN operation, but was bntfed by the diminu-
non nf the iiuld. when he eHaeavored to trans
NIT 1t Tor a great distance, so as to produce
mechanical effects. I'll difficulty the dis
OF Henry, however, aflerward over
In the same year Mr., Sturgeon, Of England,
the electro magnet by coiling a
wire round a piece Of iron ofa horse
hue from, The bent turns of the wire being so
lar apart AS to prevent contact. He found
Fat when the electric fluid pissed through this
coil, the enclosed iron became a magnet, and
was again d~e.magnetised in breaking the car
rent. The wires were afterwards coated with
nnn-conducting substances. and wrapped
around the iron in close contact, as we now
them.
lS26-Mr. Harrison Gray Dyar erected n
on Lang Island, in New York. lie
Used lr%lctional electricity. and dyed marks on
chemically prepared paper by the passage OF
1884, Professor Joseph Henry, of Prince
ton College. discovered a method of forming
magnets of Intensity and quantity produced
from correspondent batterie., and by the use
If which. with relay magnets, etc, prepared bv
him, he made known iii pr%acticability Of pro.
1ucing mechanical effects at a great distance.
900 to 2.UG0 miles.
lS32.--Baron Schrliiug. of St. Petersburg,
a defective magnetic telegraph
which had an aiarm DELL CONNECTED with it.
lS33.:-Gauss and Webber first constructed
he simpllned electromagnetic telegraph. Ii
Ganss who FIRST employed the incitemept
OF induction aud demonstrated that the appro-
pirate combination Of a limited number of
-'gnS Is all that is required for the transmission
of communications Webber discovered thai
a copper wire 7.400 feet long. which he carried
over The houses and church ~sieeples of Coffin.
gen, from the Observatory to The Cabinet of