 | Beckles Willson - 1903 - 212 pages
...makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on at any distance ; within or without a besieged town, for instance ; or for a purpose...two lovers prohibited or prevented from any better connections." Here, then, was a complete electric telegraph on a limited scale, and yet years were... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904 - 572 pages
...curiously enough, goes on to say that the discovery might be used for carrying on a correspondence ' at any distance ; within and without a besieged town,...prohibited or prevented from any better connection.' He seems to have had no conception of the real importance of a discovery which he was able to describe... | |
 | W. J. Wiltshire - 1913 - 242 pages
...makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on at any distance ; within or without a besieged town, for instance ; or for a purpose...two lovers prohibited or prevented from any better connections." Here, then, was a complete electric telegraph on a limited scale, and yet years were... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1915 - 398 pages
...motions of the ball, writes 1 Whitehurst's Formation of the Earth, 2nd ed. p. 6. — Author's note. down the words they indicate: from which it appears...Whatever the use may be, the invention is beautiful. Monsieur Lomond has many- other curious machines, all the entire work of his own hands: mechanical... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1929 - 496 pages
...top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife,...the use may be, the invention is beautiful. Mons. Lhomond has many other curious machines, all the entire work of his own hands; mechanical invention... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1892 - 990 pages
...motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried ou at any distance: within and without a besieged town,...prevented from any better connection. Whatever the use be, the invention is beautiful." Two things are remarkable in this statement. One is that one of the... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1848 - 488 pages
...makes no ditference in the effect : " a correspondence might be carried on, at any distance ; within or without a besieged town for instance ; or for a purpose...worthy and a thousand times more harmless between two towns prohibited or prevented from any better connexion.'1 More than sixty years have elapsed since... | |
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... a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate; from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions.... 
