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
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H a v r e t o N e w Y o r
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k O c t o b e r 1 8 3 2
It is evident, as the attendant at Baltimore has no agency in the
transmission of this message from Washington, his presence, even, is
not absolutely required in the telegraph room at Baltimore, nor is
it necessary, previously, to ask the question, _are you there_? The
operator at Washington transmits it to Baltimore, whether the attendant
is there or not, and the telegraphic characters are distinctly recorded
upon the paper of the Baltimore-register. If he omits a letter at the
key, in Washington, it is omitted on the paper in Baltimore. If he has
added at the key in Washington, it is also upon the paper in Baltimore,
nothing more or less is marked upon it.
_Specimen of the Telegraphic Language._
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