 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 - Síða 219 breytti - 1880Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | 1852 - 630 síður
...cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, and fine pith balls. A wire connects with a similar electrometer, 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 he has formed an alphabet of motions.... | |
 | American Geographical and Statistical Society - 1852 - 610 síður
...electrometer having a pretty little ball of pith suspended by a silk thread ; a brass wire connects it to a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife on observing the movements of the cftrresponding ball writes the words which it indicates. From this... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1853 - 694 síður
...described as " a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, in the top of which is an electro-meter — a fine pith ball. A wire connects with a similar cylinder...electro-meter in a distant apartment;" and his wife, "by observing the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate :" from which... | |
 | Treasury - 1853 - 276 síður
...cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects it with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant...apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motion of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears that he 'has formed... | |
 | Laurence Turnbull - 1853 - 276 síður
...having a pretty little ball of pith of a quill suspended by a silk thread ; a brass wire connects it to a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife, on observing the movements of the corresponding ball, wrote the words which it indicated. From this... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 síður
...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,... | |
 | 1855 - 824 síður
...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 that ho has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | 1856 - 784 síður
...the top of which is an electrometer of pith balls, liy means of a wire, a connection is made with n similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife, by remarking the corresponding notion of (ho balls, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears he has formed an alphabtl... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1857 - 632 síður
...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 ho has formed an Alphnbrt of... | |
 | 1858 - 798 síður
...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,... | |
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