. The ways of our railways . THE ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC TIBE SYSTEM FOR THE COLLECTION AND DELIVERY OF RAILWAY TELEGRAMS. THE INSTRUMENTS INSTALLED BY MESSRS. REID BROTHERS AT PADDINGTON, LONDON, G. W. INTERIOR <F BRITISH THOMS 1N-HOISTON rcMTANVS ;rATION AT CHAPTER Electrical Equipment. IT is not at the present time generally knowTithat the first important adaptation of electricityto commercial use—in the form of telegraphy—was the outcome of the requirements of the railwayservice. Safety and efficiency in the working oflines of railway alike called for some means wherebythe officials
. The ways of our railways . THE ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC TIBE SYSTEM FOR THE COLLECTION AND DELIVERY OF RAILWAY TELEGRAMS. THE INSTRUMENTS INSTALLED BY MESSRS. REID BROTHERS AT PADDINGTON, LONDON, G. W. INTERIOR <F BRITISH THOMS 1N-HOISTON rcMTANVS ;rATION AT CHAPTER Electrical Equipment. IT is not at the present time generally knowTithat the first important adaptation of electricityto commercial use—in the form of telegraphy—was the outcome of the requirements of the railwayservice. Safety and efficiency in the working oflines of railway alike called for some means wherebythe officials in charge of the traffic could be keptcognisant of the movements and relative positionsof the various trains and vehicles. Oersteds cele-brated discovery of the power of an electric (or, asit was then more 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) Rail
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