The Brookhaven leader., 1885-06-25
THE INDUCTION TELEGRAPH.
A Wonderful Experiment Succes'fuIIy
Iried-Induction at SIXTY Feet

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A most interesting as well as won
deriul, pertinent IN telegraphy was
successfully tired recently ~ tho alti-
more ohio Telegraph company o.ic-
idls. They succeeded in telegrd hing on
railroad ira while going 1T tho rate
OF forty mi es an hOur ~ tue Phelps in
du tlou system. The experiment. was
,Oui Cted by A,r. helps, the inventor.
ami under dire>tion Il the aitimo
rhio oitic ais. Pssst lgor Agent ang-
bOTu and Manager Mc..aren went on tn.
car, and Mr. Weaver, the electrician
remained at the re g wing o .ite IN New
ork. The e perm mt was tried on the
Harlem river Drdncl Of the New ORR
{. New Haven railroad
soon after the tran was started, ana
while long at the rate of forty miles an
hour, the operator IN the car called
eT ORR. y direct wire had Ueen fur
n.shed through to Baltimore and into
President a!rettS private Office in the
Central building IL this city. The gen
tlemen in the ear awaited the ausWel
with anxiety. soon the instrument he
gan ticking as loudly as ii il a station
AIRY office New J orK had responded
Tne induction system WDrkc l. , 4
tangborn then nd ted telegram TO
l'r 'sIdcnt Garrett 81 InL that the
Phelps Miactlon system was II sue .eS,.
Tue telegram went direct II 1Ir Garrct.
and an answer WAS receive ty the cN-
p'rlmentorS Oh tac car: "lour tee
gram has been delivered to resident
Garrett in his private Office Ma
ON frblt,, hon nt hnt..
dent Garrett, / am l"graphln5 to yo l,
on train going ioriy miles an Eour, hy
the Phelps induction system. he wire
in our car is seven and our-haif inc le5
from the wire laid on the ties of the
track.
While the op rator was sen ling
the dispat h, Maj. Pan ;boru no.
t!ced that the train had gone its
twelve mi eS, and that it would soon
pass over the wire in the wooden trench.
lie nd nothing, but let the operator
continue. The train lett the box Dc-
hind. As 1t passed over the end there
was fainter sound of the tickin, OF the
instrument, but the message continued
The in luction was SO strong that the
current had gone to the wre on the
telegraph poe torty feet from the train.
1t seemed marvellous to tnc > perlmCnt-
erS Sitting il car with no wire
nearer thap forty feet, and to send an
receive messages When the tram re
turned the experiments We're cOutinucd
and 1t was found that the indurtor
worked as well as on the other
track The message was sent over
the wire in tie WOODEN tren h on
the other track, eleven feet away
OF course there was ditfereu g iu tn
sound from the one received and sent
when the car was over the wire ana
when eleven feet from it. n the re-
turn the telephone was connected tn
the induction system, and a me sage on
wire 90 feet away was heard. Ih
sender was in New ork, and lie was
sending message to his wife i'll New
kochelle II will not be home to nigIt
Business detainS me in the city"
Mt Phelps stated that a system of
bells could be placed on the engines and
worked by the induction system, so that
ira MS could telegraph to each other, and
IL system arranged 50 that when trains
were within 100 feet of each other a
bell would ring, announcing the mum
Ter OF the train ahead.