Year: 1885

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I ALBANY FEATHERSTONHAUGH of the Junior United Service Club Pall Mall
in the County of Middlesex Major Royal Engineers do hereby declare the nature
of said Invention to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to provide means whereby addresses can be
telegraphed with greater facility to the telegraph Office and at less cost to the
sender than at present is the case.
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According to my Invention I designate each Street Road or the like in a City.
or Town by a distinguishing number and I provide a book in which the numbers
are printed in chronological order with the Streets Roads or the like which they
denote opposite to each and there may also be added an Alphabetical list of the
Streets Roads or the like with their denoting numbers and to further facilitate
the telegraphing of the addresses the distinguishing number may be marked at
each Street Road or the like together with its name-Thus taking an example for
the purpose of illustration suppose the distinguishing number for "
Great Chapel
Street London S.W." to be "9" and it be desired to send a message to, say the
house numbered 18 in that Street the address to be telegraphed will be "18/9"
and the messenger or telegraph Clerk having one of the books aforesaid in his
possession can easily find the Street and house denoted. A great saving in cost
and facility in telegraphing in thus secured.
Da

page_text: Improved Means for Use in Telegraphing Addresses in Cities
and Towns.
I ALBANY FEATHERSTONHAUGH of the Junior United Service Club Charles
Street London in the County of Middlesex Major Royal Engineers do hereby
declare the nature of said Invention to be as follows:-
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My Invention has for its object to provide means whereby addresses can be
telegraphed with greater facility to the Telegraph office and at, less cost to the
sender than at present is the case. According to my invention I designate each
street road square place or the like in a City or Town by a distinguishing number
and I provide for each City or Town to which my invention is to be applied
book in which the cardinal numbers are printed in chronological order with the
streets roads or the like which they denote opposite to each and in this book is
also printed an alphabetical list of the streets roads or the like with their denoting
numbers. Then when a telegram is to be sent to any house in the said City or
Town the number of the house in its street and the number of the street taken
from the aforesaid book are combined into a group such as is mentioned in
Paragraph 34 of the Postal Telegraph regulations for Inland Telegrams in the
Postal Guide for July 1886. Thus taking an example. for the purpose of illustration
suppose the distinguishing number for Great Chapel Street S.W. London be 9, the
address of a person named, say, Smith, living at No 18 in that street would be
according to my invention, "Smith 18.9 London" the number of the house being
always given in the said group before that of the street.
The book aforesaid being printed and offered for sale to the public for use as
regards any particular City or Town any person who wishes to send a telegram to
a house in the said City or Town need not write the name of the street in his
message but can take its number from one of the aforesaid books and write it in a
group with the number of the house as described above and the clerk or operator
who telegraphs the message need not concern himself with the name of the street
but need only telegraph the group of numbers as he receives it so likewise the
clerk or operator who receives the message at the further end of the line need only
write down the group of numbers as he receives it and need not concern himself
about the name of the street leaving it to some other person to look up the same
from one of the aforesaid books. In this way the telegraph wires instruments
and operators will be occupied for a less time than is at present the case over any
particular message and the cost to the sender will, in the case of London, be on
an average, according to the present tariff, about one penny less per telegram than
is at present the case. It is to be noted also that although the above way of
carrying out my Invention is the most complete way still should any person
present for transmission a telegram in which the name of the street road or the
like is written in as at present this will not prevent the use of my invention
because the clerk at the desk who first receives the telegram from the person who
presents it can look up the number of the street road or the like and write it in
the telegram in the way described above that is to say in a group with the house

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and instruments, as before.
It will further facilitate the use of my invention if the number of every street
road or the like be put up at the same places as the names now are. This
however is not necessary to the use of the said invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The combination of the number of the house and of the number designating the
street in which the house is situated into a group such as is mentioned in
Paragraph 34 of the Postal Telegraph regulations for Inland Telegrams in the
Postal Guide for July 1886, by which plan great economy of labour will ensue to
the Postal telegraph service and great economy of money to the senders of
telegrams.
Dated thin fiftannth dow of T.l. 1996