. The ways of our railways . ore commonly called, a voltaic) currentto deflect a compass needle suggested to Mr. (after-wards Sir) William Fothergill Cooke a means bywhich instantaneous communications might be madefrom one railway station to another, and in con-junction with Mr. Wheatstone he established anexperimental circuit between Euston and CamdenTown on the London and Birmingham (now Londonand North-Western) Railway, wires covered inwooden trunking being used. The first electrictelegraph for ever\^day working was erected in 1838between Paddington and West Drayton on the Great no THE WAYS
. The ways of our railways . ore commonly called, a voltaic) currentto deflect a compass needle suggested to Mr. (after-wards Sir) William Fothergill Cooke a means bywhich instantaneous communications might be madefrom one railway station to another, and in con-junction with Mr. Wheatstone he established anexperimental circuit between Euston and CamdenTown on the London and Birmingham (now Londonand North-Western) Railway, wires covered inwooden trunking being used. The first electrictelegraph for ever\^day working was erected in 1838between Paddington and West Drayton on the Great no THE WAYS OF OUR RAILWAYS. Western Railway, the wires being at first placed ina tube, but afterwards stretched on posts. Twoyears later the London and Blackwall Railway wasopened, the trains being drawn, not by locomotives,but by rope-traction. It being desired to start atrain every quarter of an hour in each direction,the electric telegraph was installed throughout thelength of the line, and the whole traffic regulatedby its ALPHABET OF THE SINGLE-NEEDLE ELECTRICTELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT. The instrument used in these pioneer installationswas the five needle telegraph, shown in theaccompanying picture. It wiU be seen that onlytwenty different signs could be given by thisapparatus, and that the letters c, j, q, u, x, and zwere not represented, but had to be signified by
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