The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
The Wonders of the Telephone

In former number of the Herald we have Oh.
Scrbed the apparatus now used i'll Providence i"r
lighting and eXtingulshing the street lights lis
novelty consists in the combination of compressed
air. for performing the mechanical part et tine
operation. with an electric current for lighting tile
gas. The system has been in operation something
more than year, and has resulted in very great
saving of expense, i'll the care and lighting OF the
30 lantcruS to which it has hn.u applied over the
old system of hand lighting The connection of
the lanterns with central Office is made through
about ten miles OF copper wire, which is incloSrd
in iron pipes, laid about eighteen inches below the
surface, and all Of them are rIitrd or cNtingush
ed in less than half Il minute. by the turn up or
down, OF single lever. Since the Introduction Of
this system into Providence some further useful
discoveries have been made, by adapting thy
electric wires for lighting to general trlr@raphjr
purposes; more especially for trc@rtpIc fire
alarm and police signals. by means Of winch com
munication may be made hy any policeman nu
duty. with police office and engine house with
which the wires are connected by the use at
simple hand instrument, not larger than couuluu
door key upon the wire ut amy lamp post. which.
tor the time beng. becomes tcItrraphic station.
II a policeman wishes to give notice Of Il fire Of
burglary he has only to 20 to the nearest lamp post
apply his KEY, ana by the use Of the ordinary
telegraphic signals the Information is ut once ruu
Ncycd. But, through this key, the policeman
receive NO message back and cannot even know
that his information las been received III the puut
points to which he designed to forward il. This
can only be done through the use hy linn OF q
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knowledge of strained operator
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demonstrated i'll the clcarcst and most con tiucng
manner that the newly discovered principle ct the
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ing tubes and wires and all the mistakes and con
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