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
As the above explanation is given only in
reference to the power of the electro magnet, when connected with the
battery, and to show the movements of the pen lever, we shall speak of
the arrangement of the wires for extended lines hereafter.
Having now explained the electro magnet and its operation through the
agency of the battery, we will proceed to describe those various parts
of the register, by which the electro magnet is made subservient to the
transmission of intelligence from one distant point to another.
Figure 9 represents, in perspective, the whole of the register, as also
the key or correspondent. The electro magnet, H and H, and the pen
lever, L, which have just been described under figure 8, need not be
recapitulated here. The letters used in figure 8, represent the same
parts of the electro magnet in this figure.
The brass frame containing the clock work, or rather wheel work, of the
instrument, is seen at 5 and 5. The whole purpose of the clock work is
to draw the paper,[4] 2, 2, under the steel roller, S, and over the
pen, R, at an uniform rate.
[4] The paper used for telegraphic writing is first manufactured by
the paper making machine in one long continuous sheet, of any length,
about three feet and a half in width, and is compactly rolled up as it
is made, upon a wooden cylinder. It is then put into a lathe and marked
off in equal divisions of one and a half inches in width; a knife is
applied to one division at a time, and as the roll of paper revolves,
the knife cuts through the entire coil until it reaches the wooden
centre. This furnishes a coil ready for the register, and is about
fifteen inches in diameter. The whole roll of paper furnishes, in this
way, about twenty-eight small rolls prepared for use.
There is also an arrangement in connection with the wheel work, by
means of which the clock work is put in motion and stopped at the
pleasure of the operator at the distant station. How this is done will
now be explained. Upon the shaft, R′, is a brass barrel, upon which is
wound the cord to which the weight, 4, is suspended, and by means of
which and the intermediate wheels, the motion produced, is communicated
to two rollers (not seen in this figure, see fig. 10, E F) in advance
of the steel grooved roller, S. These two rollers grasp the paper, 2,
2, 3, between them, and supply it to the pen at a given and uniform
rate; the rate being determined by the adjustment of the wings of the
fly, connected with the train.
[Illustration: FIG. 9.]
[Illustration: FIG. 10.]
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