The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: With the Reports of Congress, and a Description of All Telegraphs Known, Employing Electricity or Galvanism — John Shaqi
The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: With the Reports of Congress, and a Description of All Telegraphs Known, Employing Electricity or GalvanismVail, Alfred
History
The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: With the Reports of Congress, and a Description of All Telegraphs Known, Employing Electricity or Galvanism
Vail, Alfred
Telegraph -- History
Figure 8 exhibits, in perspective, a view of the electro magnet and the
pen lever, in a condition to show the effect of the galvanic battery
upon the prongs of the magnet, F and F, and the armature, D, and the
movement of the pen lever to which the electro magnet is secured. A
bolt, upon the end of which is a head or shoulder, passes through the
centre of the upright block, C, and between the coils, H and H, and
also through the brass brace, O, projecting a little beyond it, with a
screw cut upon its end. The thumb-nut, P, fitted to it, is then put on,
and the whole firmly held by screwing the thumb-nut as far as possible.
F and F are the faces of the iron prongs, as shown in figure 7,
presenting their flat surface to the armature, D. L is the pen lever,
suspended upon steel points, as its axis, which pass through its side
at X, and soldered to it. Each end of this steel centre is tapered so
as to form a sharp and delicate point or pivot. E is a screw, passing
through the side of the brass standard, G, and presenting at its end
a sunken centre, the reverse of the steel pivot point at X. There is
also another screw, similar to E, passing through the other side of the
standard at G′, with a sunken centre in its end. By the extremities
of these two screws, to which the tapered ends of the steel centre is
fitted, the pen lever is suspended, so as delicately to move up and
down, as shown by the direction of the arrow. The brass standard, G,
is secured to the upright block, C. D is the armature, soldered to
the end of the brass pen lever, L, separated from the faces of the
magnet, F and F, about the eighth of an inch. W is a yoke, secured
to the lever by a screw, and which admits through its lower part the
steel wire spring, M M, for the purpose of bringing down the lever
when not acted upon by the electro magnet. The spring is secured to a
brass standard at the top, represented by N. R represents the three
steel points of the pen,[3] which mark upon the paper the telegraphic
characters; each of which strike into its own appropriate groove in the
steel roller, S. T and T are the flanges of the steel roller, S, and
which confine the paper as it passes between the pen points, R, and the
steel roller, S, described more fully hereafter. J and I are two screws
in the horizontal cross bar attached to the standard, G, and are used
for the purpose of adjusting and limiting the pen lever in its movement
upward and downward; the one to prevent the pen points from striking
too deeply into the paper and tearing it, and the other to prevent the
armature from receding too far from the faces of the electro magnet,
and beyond its attraction, when it is a magnet. K is the connecting
wire of the two coils H and H. A and B show the ends of the wire, one
coming from each coil and passing through the stand, and seen below at
_a_ and _b_.
[3] One marking point will suffice.
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