The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph
by Alfred Vail
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About this eBook
- Author
- Vail, Alfred, 1807-1859
- Title
- The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph With the Reports of Congress, and a Description of All Telegraphs Known, Employing Electricity or Galvanism
- Credits
- Produced by Sharon Joiner, Paul Marshall, Robert Shimmin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TK: Technology: Electrical, Electronics and Nuclear engineering
- Subject
- Telegraph -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61533
- Release Date
- February 29, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE AMERICAN ELECTRO MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH:
- 2.CONTENTS. — INTRODUCTION.
- 3.THE ELECTRO MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. — THE GALVANIC BATTERY. — THE WIRE. — THE ELECTRO MAGNET. — ALPHABET. — Specimen of the Telegraphic Language. — CORRESPONDENT OR KEY.
- 4.THE LEVER KEY. — The circuit of the Electro Magnet, closed and broken by the movement of the lever itself, acted upon by the Electro Magnet. Showing the rapidity with which it is possible to close and break the circuit. — CONDUCTING POWER AND GALVANIC ACTION OF THE EARTH. — Six Independent Circuits, with six wires, each wire making an independent line of communication. — MODE OF SECRET CORRESPONDENCE. — THE GALVANOMETER OR GALVANOSCOPE. — An Interesting Experiment of Supporting a Large Bar of Iron within the Helix. Discovered by Mr. Vail, January, 1844. — APPLICATION OF THE ELECTRO MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH TO THE DETERMINATION OF LONGITUDE. — MODE OF CROSSING BROAD RIVERS, OR OTHER BODIES OF WATER, WITHOUT WIRES. — TELEGRAPHIC CHESS PLAYING — First Game of Chess. — Second Game. — Improvement in the Magneto Electric Machine, and Application of this Instrument to operate the Magnetic Telegraph.
- 5.REPORTS TO CONGRESS ON THE SUBJECT OF ELECTRO MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS.
- 6.HISTORY OF TELEGRAPHS, — Employing Electricity in Various Ways for the Transmission of Intelligence. — Lomond’s Electrical Telegraph. — Reizen’s Electric Spark Telegraph. — Dr. Salva’s Electric Spark Telegraph. — Origin of Galvanism. — The Decomposition of Water. — Samuel Thomas Soemmering’s Description of his Voltaic Electric Telegraph, invented in 1809. — Extract from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 20, page 325. — Ronald’s Electric Telegraph, invented in 1816. — Electro Magnetism. — The following Extract is taken from a Work on Electro Magnetism published by Jacob Green, M. D. Professor of Chemistry in Jefferson Medical College, 1827. — Triboaillet’s Proposition. — Fechner’s Suggestion. [22] — Magneto Electricity. — Dr. Page’s Magneto Electric Machine. — The Pole Changer. — Professor Morse’s American Electro Magnetic Telegraph, invented, 1832. — Schilling Electric Telegraph. — [27] The Electro Magnetic Telegraph, of Counsellor Gauss and Professor William Weber, invented at Göttingen, 1833. — Experiment of Messrs. Taquin & Ettieyhausen. [28] — Electro Magnetic Printing Telegraph, invented by Alfred Vail, September, 1837. — Wheatstone’s Electric Needle Telegraph, invented in 1837. — Steinheil’s Electric Telegraph. — Masson’s Electric Telegraph. — Davy’s Needle and Lamp Telegraph. — Alexander’s Electric Telegraph, from the (Scotsmen) Mechanic’s Magazine, Nov. 1837. — Extract from the Report of the Academy of Industry, in reference to a suggestion of M. Amyot of an Electric Telegraph. — Edward Davy’s Electric Telegraph. [34] — Bain’s Printing Telegraph. — Wheatstone’s Rotating Disc Telegraph, invented, 1841.
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