The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-07-16

perfect as Il Is possible for delicate and powerful an
insulated wire OF such length ever 70 BE- - -.
Fleming Jenkin arrived board this afternoon This
admirable contrvance 10 auomaiic IN It's action. the
weight OF strain 10 be fixed upon the CABLE either In
paving or hauling in. when agreed upon by the
engineers never be exceeded Thus, for instance II
the cable win run Of itself and vcs versa II in hauling
Il the strain should reach six tons the machine will
ply itself. and instead OF pulling up let down
the wire
Among the many improvements which are TO be tried
system Of codi6sd signals by Of which single
mineral often represents whole sentence and always
b. whoa 81 words and Of the English
words and letter. Of any other language capable
ukewss erprssssd the object Of thiS Arrangement i
70 facilitate the speed Of transmission Of messages and
The sssphc sybos used q EXPIRES. hs
code are the dot and the dash By this system the
neossty Of mixing dots with dashes !: obvised errors
arislna from the use OF . combination OF both are
avoided and tho signals equally simple and effective,
whether used with short and long signal right or
The code Is divided into ave parts and they are As fol-
Pat II provides ITO signals, and expresses tho let
Part nj provides for 1000 signals limited to three
figures and forms the spelling CODE" by which any
word II any language having English characters can be
Psrs III provides for IL, 900 signals limited to four
% sna and
Of places months Of the year days VI the month
and week, time, nours 10
figures and expresses every word English language
alphabetically arranged and such sentences as are ooded
Part v provides for $4,000 signals limited to six
figures and the name OF every known place in
Each part is readily dstinguishable by the number Of
figures In the group for instance, group OF three
figures must refer TO Part H. and group Of five figures
In the formation Of this method Of codncation sys.
tenn Of page and line has been established, indicating,
by single glance At the group Of figures the particular
page and line In the code book to which they refer thus
considerably facilitating the rendering Of messages from
code into ordinary language.
The advantages OF this system Of codfyng by figures
code, simplicity Of Instrumentation, and nonablty to
multi 'ton In passing through different countries as Is
Of frequent tho line to India and
generally abroad facility Of repetition. and it's applca-
by any language by translation without causing loss
of time.
II has been established from the result Of recent OK.
perments through the cable on board the Great
Eastern that this system s capable OF eecting, at the
very least gain Of hundred cent over that now
In se thus making cable do the worS Of two Thus
matter what Instruments used the advantages 10
be obtained by the use Of the code will follow For
ample instrument sending by the ordinary teegaphc
symbols letter by letter at rate Of eight words per
minute transmit by the use or this codeat least six
Objections may be advanced as 10 the use Of code
causing probable naccuracy but this Is not So for q
skilled operator can transmit symbols figures
as easily as he can symbols representing letters and the
possibility Of error In the reading Of message by the
clerk at the receiving end is as remote as an event
can be. Errors, II they do occur, must DO localized
In more particular groups OF figures, render
ing them quite unintenigble and impossible even
numbered the one in which .he error may have
been committed ID requested to be repeated and thus
accuracy is secured and the highly Questionable prac
great extent with telegraph operators often causing
the mutlatlon Of the message Is rendered impossible