. Papers : literary, sicentific, & sasi^^^^i%,.^^i-^S»&Ss&i^^ m^s^m (? AlEW ATLANTIC CABL£, 1866. ^?*^,^s£:^:^^^^- -. ^^~~ ^-^gr-^^BS^ S^a^g^*^*^^ —T=^S!!^V-^: —^. 222 APPLIED SCIENCE than would be supposed. With the Great Eastern as a pointVappui the variation was hardly sensible. Another array ofpatents defends the privilege of laying a cable through a longauxiliary tube; four patents for this contrivance were taken outin 1857. Other gentlemen wish to tack floats on to the cable ;others, parachutes; others, gum and cotton, so as to buoy thecable up for some time; then the gum or glue diss
. Papers : literary, sicentific, & sasi^^^^i%,.^^i-^S»&Ss&i^^ m^s^m (? AlEW ATLANTIC CABL£, 1866. ^?*^,^s£:^:^^^^- -. ^^~~ ^-^gr-^^BS^ S^a^g^*^*^^ —T=^S!!^V-^: —^. 222 APPLIED SCIENCE than would be supposed. With the Great Eastern as a pointVappui the variation was hardly sensible. Another array ofpatents defends the privilege of laying a cable through a longauxiliary tube; four patents for this contrivance were taken outin 1857. Other gentlemen wish to tack floats on to the cable ;others, parachutes; others, gum and cotton, so as to buoy thecable up for some time; then the gum or glue dissolves and letsthe cable down quietly. It is both amusing and sad to readthese and many other contrivances. Surely the man who makesa bad invention, and, believing it to be good, spends his life andhis fortune in the vain attempt to achieve an impossible success,is almost as fit a subject for commiseration as the real inventorwho fails to reap his just reward ; and then the former class aremuch more numerous than the latter. The machinery now in use for laying cables acts extremelywell ; if the cone and rings were in general use, no further im-provement would b
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