f92 On the Establishment of Telegraph 



inventor, soliciting him to describe and delineate the ma- 

 chine, so as it might be intro^iced into general vise in the 

 variaus quarters of the kingdom. 



To save time in complying with the^e requests, he adopt- 

 ed the method of printing and circulating these plates, ac- 

 companied with a description, which will clearly deraorv- 

 strate, at how very small an expense, and with how very- 

 little mechanical art, the elastic frame can be constrticled ; 

 for, in fact, there is no village in Britain, in which an or- 

 dinary smith and carpenter reside, where it may not be 

 easily made. 



Under these circumstances, the inventor feels it a duty 

 he owes to his country, and to those suffering bodily di- 

 stress, to give it all the publicity in his power ; with which 

 view, and with the most ardent wishes for its continuing to 

 prove benellcial, in mitigating the distresses of such as may 

 require its aid, this account is submitted to the public. 



Gajilcld Place, 

 17th Sept. 1807. 



XLV. Project for the Estallishmeyit of Telegraphs on a 

 New Consiructhn. By Capt. Pasuey,. of the Royal 

 E?!gincers, 



[Concluded from p. 2 10.] 



2t/. A Polygrammatic Telegraph for Day Sigfials. 



Xn the reflections concerning the Mse of telegraphs in gene- 

 ral, into which I was unavoidably led whilst digesting the 

 above proposal, it appeared to me a fundamental principle 

 of the art, to aim as much as possible at celerity and di- 

 spatch, which I found vwere in some measure to be gained 

 by employing a number of words and sentences adapted to 

 the key of the telegraph, according to the method of sec- 

 tions, instead of adhering entirely to the tedious alphabeticat 

 mode, which (to the best of my knowledge) is the onfy- 

 one in common use. 



Still there remained a defect, in its being impossible to 

 express a variety of significations without making two or 



three 



