Inventors . Train Telegraph—the message transmitted by induction from the moving train to the single wire. at the lower end of the pendulum, in contactwith the paper; an electro-magnet fastened to ashelf across the picture or stretching frame, op-posite to an armature made fast to the pendu-lum ; a type rule and type for breaking thecircuit, resting on an endless band, composed ofcarpet-binding, which passed over two woodenrollers moved by a wooden crank. Up to the autumn of 1837 my telegraphicapparatus existed in so rude a form that I felt a 132 TNVENTORS reluctance to have it seen. My means
Inventors . Train Telegraph—the message transmitted by induction from the moving train to the single wire. at the lower end of the pendulum, in contactwith the paper; an electro-magnet fastened to ashelf across the picture or stretching frame, op-posite to an armature made fast to the pendu-lum ; a type rule and type for breaking thecircuit, resting on an endless band, composed ofcarpet-binding, which passed over two woodenrollers moved by a wooden crank. Up to the autumn of 1837 my telegraphicapparatus existed in so rude a form that I felt a 132 TNVENTORS reluctance to have it seen. My means were verylimited--so limited as to preclude the possibilityof constructing an apparatus of such mechanical. Interior of a Car on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, showing the Method of Operating the Train Telegraph. finish as to warrant my success in venturingupon its public exhibition. I had no wish to ex-pose to ridicule the representative of so manyhours of laborious thought. Prior to the sum-mer of 1837, at which time Mr. Alfred Vails at- SAMUEL F. B. MORSE 133 tention became attracted to my telegraph, Idepended upon my pencil lor subsistence. In-deed, so straitened were mv circumstances that,in order to save time to carry out mv inventionand to economize my scanty means, I had formany months lodged and eaten in my studio,procuring my food in small quantities from somegrocery and preparing it myself. To concealfrom my friends the stinted manner in which Ilived, I was in the habit of bringing my food tomy room in the evenings, and this was my modeof life for many years. Before the telegraph was actually tried andpractised the cumbersome piano-key board de-vised by Morse in his first experiment
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