186 Miscellanies. 
‘fullest communication, and the use of but one wire as a conductor; 
although for greater convenience of communicating at all times, and 
_ of shaving a whole circuit at command from each extremity of the 
line he will use four wires. 
On Sept. 2d, Prof. Morse tried an experiment with a circuit of 
copper wire one thousand sevem hundred feet in length, and of the 
minimum size of No. 18 wire. ‘The record of the Register was suf- 
ficiently perfect to demonstrate the practicability of the plan. On 
the 4th of September some slight changes were made in the ma- 
chinery, when the Register recorded perfectly the following signs: 
o 
S 
2 
3 
~_ 
22° ke 
2 = @ @ 
— ou 2, 
uy ay s 
3 &0 ap 
ie © x) ais "Gans 
SS o © a cD 
8 Es ae) =) ep) ® 
is re = 
_ 
S 
~ = 
Et) 5 (6 8) 
o. = 
a Do ws} os] 
S's =QN Ns ae 
a. 5 5 
& 3s (= S 
eae SS 
ES) 
es 
ae # 2 
eS Be) 0 = - 
ASS) = : = & 
= = S} Says) Ss 
5S = = ay 
ro Sy 
— 
= 
ay 
= 
© 
S 
a Ss a : Sa 
=) = (<b) (cb) 
Rin Re 3 = ite 
= D 32 Be ws 
= 3) rs) a4 = 
°s A aon ® o 
Q DRE QW WN HW 
5, 5 
w 
The words in the diagram were the intelligence transmitted. 
The numbers, (in this instance arbitrary,) are iS numbers of the 
words in a Telegraphic dictionary. 
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