The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-06-21
!, ssfzl.,ory Of tho Telegraph.

sxIl.,ory Of tho Telegraph.
ESSS. Morse, Of course, does not claim
ESE5s inHli:J thkdis6o@ery VI the Aele.
hph, but his HventiSn han confined
Feo be. .recognizA4in all hrts d the Horld
|afh3nging to warkifk co2litionfaoh a
Ea@ seale, thYRriHcipR invklved! {! The
[aas@aM empfoyin 3 S7Sotsi6fty f6F tele.
EAfap6ihg. followed very soon the dis
EooSety, made about the year 1923, that
the shock could che' Unidentified long diss
tanoes through conducting media with
great raPidity: This: however, led TO no
iu-l647, that the enrth- itself and inter
vening bodies of, water. might be made
use. OF to complete the electric circuit,
wns On important stop in the progress of
the communication OF signals. He sup
ported his wires, as now practiced on the
telegraph lines, upon posts. In 1774,
Lesage. ut Geneva. communicated signals
by means OF tue electric shock from one
apartment to another. and Damonde did
the same in france, In 17S7. In 1894,
the electric spark WAS employed by
Reizen, Of Germany. for telegraphing,
making nse OF an ingenious arrangement
OF lines and interrupted spnces upon
strips OF tin foil, 80 arranged that when
these spaces were illuminated by the
spark. the form Of the letter or figure
was exhibited. Salve and Betancourt,
OF Madrid, constructed telegraphs in
1877 and 1873. between Madrid and
Arenjuez, Distance of.about twenty-si1
miles, and the former appears to have
had clear idea Of the practicability Of
this electric communication even ben enth
the sen. In 1927, Harrison G.. Dyer
lnnde an attempt (as Ronnlts had done
before in England) to employ machines
on friction electricity. Dyer made his
experiments at the race course on Long
Island. New York, ou line of two miles
III length, making nso Of iron wires,
glass insulators, and wooden posts, for
supporting the wire, and employed the
chemical action Of the electric current TO
change tho color OF litmus paper as his
method OF communicating
Not much progress, however. was
made In perfecting the electric telegraph
until the principles OF electromagnetic
had been discovered, in 1919. we need
not recount the successive stages in the
development and application of this
latter discovery until the first telegraph
wna actually established. which appears
to have been that invented by Prof. @.
a. Steinheii, OF Munich, in 1886, add
adopted the next year by the Bavarian
Government It extended distance OF
twelve miles, and made use of the earth
to complete the circuit It's signals were
sounds produced upon q series of bells
of different tones, Which soon became
Ineligible, and the same movements
that caused the sounds were also mad q
to trace lines and dots upon n ribbon OF
paper moved at uniform rate, on the
ssfne principle with tiie 51vtho6 brought
before the public by Professor Morse in
1887. It may be added TINT about tho
same time several telegraphs were made
known in different countries, the pro-
dnction Of independent inventors, but
that devised by Professor Morse is gene
rally recognized in all parts Of the world
as the most efficient and simple, md has
been improved by experiments and con-
trivances devised by the inventor since
1882, with the assistance of various men
OF science. 1t is, perhaps, as true Of
this discovery as of Fulton's application
OF steam to the propulsion of vessels,
and OF other great discoveries. That there
is long distance between the germ Of
such ideas and O wearisome progress
through their successive stages of de-
velopment, before they reach that point
where they con demonstrate themselves
by results. Profefror Morse quotes the
Chief Justice on his patent, who says,
in delivering the decision of the Su-
preme Court, sit can make no difference
whether he (the inventory derives his in
formation from books or from conversa-
tion with men skiiled in the science. and
the fact that Morse sought and obtained
the necessary information and counsel
from the best sources. and acted upon it,
neither impairs his rights as m inventor
nor detrncts from his merits" With
great modesty Professor Morse comedies
that that invention is impersonated in
the statne rather than in the inventor,
but the telegraph and the name of him
who made it practicable, cnn never be
separated in the minds OF mon so long
as the telegraphio wires girdle the globe.
Baltimore Sun.
Tho Jackson MISSY Pilot says: "Five
persons have recently been found dead
in the Southern part of this State, under
mulberry trees. Death in all these cases
has been attributed to eating mulberries
which had been impregnsted by locusts.