The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-07-29
Brief history Of Tolographs,

The New York Courier gives the fol-
lowing interesting facts in recent ar
ticle on the subject Of Telegraphing
In the year 1854, DR.. Hooko invent
ed a plan for an aerial telegraph, which
was followed by the experiments of NJ
Amoutons, for the same end. However,
neither of these plans were carried into
effect; and it was not until the year 1894
that the semaphore was actually used.
In that year an aerial telegraph, sthe
invention of NJ. Claude Chappe, was
employed for the transmission Of in
telligence between Paris and Lille, the
conveyance of a signal from one Of
these places to the other occupying only
two minutes. Semaphores were soon
in use throughout Europe,--in Eng
land, in 1895; Denmark, in 1902; In
dia, in 1923; Prussia and Austria, about
1888; in Russia, in 1889.
The cost Of working the aerial tele-
graph was very great The line above
mentioned cost about $500 per an
mum, and similar line between London
and Portsmouth cost about $4,000 per
annum. These lines were necessarily
imperfect, exceedingly slow, and liaba-
BILE to total Interruptions by storms
and fogs
The idea Of the employment of cleo
triciJy as a means Of conveying intel
! ligence to a distance appears to have
been long entertained, and experiments
to ascertain the practicability Of cleo
trical communication between distant
places, were early made by scientific
men throughout the civilized world
In 1929, Grey and Wheeler discovered
that a current of electricity could be
made to flow through considerable
lengths of wire. In 1746, Winckler,
at Leipsic, and La Monnier, at Paris,
experimental on the same subject of
the transmission Of the electric current
through conducting bodies In 1747.
DR.. Watson, in England repeated and
extended these experiments, sending a
current through two miles of wire and
two of earth, and sending shocks across
the Thames and the New River. DR.
Franklin, in 1748, and De Luc, in 1740
repeated many Of these experiments
In addition, experiments bearing moro
or less on the subject of electric tole
graphy, were made by Lesage in 1774
Reusscr in 1894, Cavallo in 1895, Be
tancourt in 1898, Soemmering in 1907
'and Prof. Oersted in 1919.
The first electric telegraph, actually
applied; seems to have been the inven
ton Of NJ. D. Z. Saliva. Humboldt say.
his telegraph was established betwoer
Madrid and Aranjuoz in 1798--a dis
tance of about 26 miles.
After many improvements and chan
ges, Professor S. Z. b. Morse, in th
year 1885, constructed the basis of hi
present simple and beautiful instrument
In September, 1887, he exhibited hi
instrument in the New York Universi
ty, working through 1,700 feet of wire
Morse applied for patent in tn
United States, in April, 1898. Thi
application was afterwards withdrawn
and his patent was not taken out un
til June, 1870 In 1912 he petition
ed Congress, who appropriated S30
600 to his use for the constructio
of a line between Washington an
Baltimore distance Of forty miles,
This was the only line in the Unite
} States constructed under goyernmor
Q patronage.
3 The House Telegraph, the invontio
} of Royal q. House, differs from previous
r ly invented telographio instruments, b
G printing messages in the ordinary Re
man lettors, and this invention, wit
p the invention Of David e. Hughes, o
= Kentucky, is well fitted to precede th
S experiment of the Atlantic cable B
y the latter invention, the labor whic
electricity has to perform is reduced
= a minimum, by making it necessary
% use only a single electrical impulse
}, form a letter; whereas, by previous sy
n TENS several distinct impulses were ne
}, ossary. With the aid Of this invontio
we can transmit a message the distant
p Of one continent to another; and so v
p have the practical decision in regard
{ the feasibility of the Atlantic cabl
o the other difficulties being only m
i chanical
IS To show the progress which h
f been made throughout the world
e building telegraph lines, we give
summary Of the existing lines in Il
d world:
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