The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-16
Submarine acknowledgement sys-
TENS.
TO TILE EDITOR OF Tile HERALD

To THE EplIOk Or The HERALD.
New YORK Oct 4, 1859
Your excellent article the s'word System OF Tele-
graphs" in Sundays issue, contains much valuable and
interesting Information. The people both this country
and Europe beginning TO appreciate the Importance OF
elegraphic communication to such to increase
the demand for wires
To certainty long we will have network OF sub
aqueous lines in country aud, By your kind per.
mission, would like to say few words thereon 1t has
been proved to demonstration in this country BIZ. more
particularly in Europe, that the electrical conductor Of
long cables s1ch the Atlantc) is inadequate to the
demand w ha' Il, IL is entirely too small to pass the
fluid in lis course without fsing it, This doubt, was
the cause Of the failure OF the Atlantic cable. Your read.
viii recollcct that abo, month after the cable was
laid when IL hung between life and death the words
tUanici's in circuit transmitted over the wire
Mf DC sauty received orders FROM Prof Thompson fhe
then electrician 81 the company) 10 put all his battery
and await the result Acting upon this he pat five hun
cre crs Of 'fanirs constant battery tic result being
fault two days after on the Bulls Arm end Of the
cable; aud faw pieces myself which had been taken
tm tie cable whore for two inches the wire and gntta
rcrcia was one melted mass.
M order T. gard against this conductor with sec.
tonal AREA TX mes IS large the present cable is
crssaIy Tor these reasons: FIRST you can get greater
quantity Of electricity ard second there less re
slstance-iwo very important Items This fact has been
strongly urged by ali practical electricians both in his
country ana Europe and has been acted upon by the At
ate Company namuch the design for the next cable
TO be laid by that body has it, conductor six times as large
insulating, dispensing altogether with the external coating
OF iron wire thereby nsurng perfect insulation less in
ducton less liability to atmospheric storms or earth cur
rents, and greater rapidly Of transmission This plan
has also been adopted in the Red Sea cable which has re-
Gently been laid.
Irof Hughes and myself worked through thousand
miles Of that cable prior to its leaving England at the rate
of five words per minute whereas the same length Of
the Atlantic It's utmost capacity was but two and half
per minute, thus showing the advantage the large con
ductor has over the small
One word regarding instruments on submarine
vines II lie fact well known that electricity is limited
to the capacity Of the cabe therefore the being so
limited the instrument that make the most use oil
them OF the best Such instrument is now in
Possession of the American Telegraph Company being on
,ic one principle and, moreover, for every wave
81 electricity transmitted the cable you recorded
a. The other end plain Roman character, thus avoiding
the dot and '.das' system which so often "butchers
ctr mother torghe.
Tie instrument Is an Improvement on the Hughes
printer and Is called the Coordination Printing Telegraph
Instrument, being used constantly on the lines Of
me above company, 1t Is shortly to be introduced
.nes II Oregon, Texas and California. description
would occupy too much space HENRY BISHOP.
Assistant Electrician 10 Prof Hughes, q Wall street.