 You write two or three words on a paper ; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball : a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in...  Nature - Síđa 219 breytti - 1880Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Arthur Young - 1793 - 710 síđur
...fimilar cylinder and electrometer in a diftant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the correfponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate : from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | 1794 - 540 síđur
...iimilar cylinder and electrometer in a diftant apartment, and his wife, by remarking the correfponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | 1855 - 782 síđur
...machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the 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, by marking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1833 - 502 síđur
...electromoter of pith balls; by means of a wire, a connexion is made with a similar cylinder and electromoter in a distant apartment, and his wife by remarking the corresponding motions of the balls, writes down the words they indicate ; from which it appears that he has formed an Alphabet qf... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1838 - 506 síđur
...turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case,' at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motionsof the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears he has formed an alphabet... | |
 | 1838 - 520 síđur
...turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartmen t . and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1893 - 1182 síđur
...turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer or small, fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...words they indicate, from which, it appears, he has formed an alphabet of motions." The length of the wire was found to make no difference. At Charenton,... | |
 | 1842 - 516 síđur
...case, at the top of which is an electrometer of pith balls; by means of a wire, a connexion is made with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant...wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the balls, writes down the words they indicate ; from which it appears that he lias formed an Alphabet... | |
 | 1846 - 438 síđur
...turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...down the words they indicate : from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | 1847 - 644 síđur
...room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate . . . the length of the wire makes no difference." This telegraph, however, like most of those which... | |
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