Posts & Telegraphs, Past and Present: With an Account of the Telephone and Phonograph ...W. Tegg & Company, 1878 - 318 oldal |
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Alexander Graham Bell amount apparatus Bell's cable carried charge circuit cloth coil communication conveyance conveyed cost current of electricity cylinder delivered delivery despatch distance districts electric telegraph electro-magnet England established experiments foreign Government groove gutta-percha heard hour hundred instrument insulated invention iron J. M. W. TURNER London Maccabees magnetism mail coaches means membrane ment miles in length Morse musical needle newspapers operation ordinary Osborne Osborne Cottage Osborne House packets paper passed penny post persons Phonograph piano pitch pneumatic tube pole Post Office postage Postmaster Postmaster-General private wire produced Professor Bell Queen railway receiving Rowland Hill Royal Savings Bank sender sent signals sound stamps stations steel point Street submarine tariff Tele telegrams Telegraph Company telegraph office telegraph wire Telephone tion towns transmission transmitted tube tuning-fork United Kingdom vibrations vowel Wheatstone William Chappell WILLIAM TEGG words
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143. oldal - Night sank upon the dusky beach, and on the purple sea, Such night in England ne'er had been, nor e'er again shall be. From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, % Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
258. oldal - When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business : but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
3. oldal - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
148. oldal - Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another by means of this their invention. Accordingly when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate.
147. oldal - Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner.
75. oldal - ... to afford us rapid, frequent, and punctual communication with distant ports which feed the main arteries of British commerce, and with the most important of our foreign possessions, to foster maritime enterprise, and to encourage the production of a superior class of vessels which would promote the convenience and wealth of the country in time of peace, and assist in defending its shores against hostile aggression.
7. oldal - For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed : 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
147. oldal - To them that come after us, it may be as ordinary to buy a pair of wings to fly into remotest regions; as now a pair of boots to ride a journey. And to confer at the distance of the Indies by sympathetic conveyances, may be as usual to future times, as to us in a literary correspondence.
184. oldal - A murder has just been committed at Salthill, and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first-class ticket for London by the train which left Slough at 7h.
295. oldal - Mr. Bell perceived that he must produce a variation of strength of current in the telegraph wire as nearly as may be in exact proportion to the velocity of a particle of air moved by the sound, and he invented a method of doing so — a piece of iron attached to a membrane, and thus moved to and fro in the neighbourhood of an electro-magnet — which has proved perfectly successful.