REPORTS OF CONGRESS ON THE SUBJECT OF ELECTRO MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a Report upon the Subject of a System of Telegraphs for the United States, December, 11, 1837, 67 Circular to certain Collectors of the Customs, Commanders of Revenue Cutters, and other persons, March 10th, 1837, 68 Letter from S. F. B. Morse to the Secretary of the Treasury, September 27, 1837, 69 Letter from S. F. B. Morse to the Secretary of the Treasury, November 28th, 1837, 73 Letter from S. F. B. Morse to the Editors of the Journal of Commerce, Sept’r 4, 1837, 74 Specimen of Telegraphic Writing made by Means of Electricity, at the distance of one-third of a mile, 75 Report of the Committee on Commerce to the House of Representatives, April 6, 1838, 76 Report of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, February 8, 1838, 79 Letter from S. F. B. Morse to the Hon. F. O. J. Smith, February 15, 1838, 80 Letter from S. F. B. Morse to the Hon. F. O. J. Smith, February 22, 1838, 82 Report of the Committee on Commerce to the House of Representatives, Dec’r 30, 1842, 83 A Bill to test the Practicability of Establishing a System of Electro Magnetic Telegraphs by the United States, 87 Letter from Professor Henry to Professor Morse, February 24, 1842, 87 Report of the American Institute on the Electro Magnetic Telegraph, Sept’r 12, 1842, 88 Letter from S. F. B. Morse to the Hon. C. G. Ferris, December 6, 1842, 89 Communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the Report of Professor Morse, announcing the Completion of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph, between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore, June 4, 1844, 97 Letter from S. F. B. Morse to Hon. McClintock Young, June 3, 1844, 98 Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a Letter from S. F. B. Morse, relative to the Magnetic Telegraph, December 23, 1844, 101 Letter from S. F. B. Morse to the Hon. G. M. Bibb, December 12, 1844, 101 Report of the Committee of Ways and Means to the House of Representatives, March 3, 1845, 107
HISTORY OF TELEGRAPHS EMPLOYING ELECTRICITY IN VARIOUS WAYS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF INTELLIGENCE.
Discoveries in Electricity, 115 Electrical Feast on the Schuylkill, 119 Dr. Franklin’s Experiment in Drawing Electricity from the Clouds, 120 Lomond’s Electrical Telegraph, (1787,) 121 Reizen’s Electric Spark Telegraph, (1794,) 121 Dr. Salva’s Electric Spark Telegraph, (1798,) 123 Discovery of Galvanism, (1790,) 123 Discovery of the Decomposition of Water by the Agency of the Galvanic Pile, 125 Samuel Thomas Soemmering’s Voltaic Electric Telegraph, (1809,) 126 Extract from the Journal of the Franklin Institute in relation to the Use of Galvanism for Telegraphic Purposes, (1816,) 128 Ronald’s Electric Telegraph, (1816,) 130 Discovery of Electro Magnetism, (1819,) 132 Extract from a Work on Electro Magnetism, published by Jacob Green, M. D. (1827,) 134 Triboaillet’s Proposition, (1828,) 135 Fechner’s Suggestion, (1829,) 135 Discovery of Magneto Electricity, (1831,) 135 Saxton’s Magneto Electric Machine, 142 Dr. Page’s Magneto Electric Machine, 145 Pole Changer, 149 Morse’s American Electro Magnetic Telegraph, (1832,) 152 Schilling’s Electric Telegraph, (1833,) 155 Gauss and Weber’s Electro Magnetic Telegraph, (1833,) 156 Experiments of Messrs. Taquin & Ettieyhausen, (1836,) 159 Vail’s Electro Magnetic Printing Telegraph, (1837,) 159 Wheatstone’s Electric Needle Telegraph, (1837,) 171 Steinheil’s Electric Telegraph, (1837,) 179 Masson’s Electric Telegraph, (1837,) 182 Davy’s Needle and Lamp Telegraph, (1837,) 182 Alexander’s Electric Telegraph, (1837,) 184 M. Amyot’s Suggestion of an Electric Telegraph, (1838,) 186 Edward Davy’s Electric Telegraph, (1838,) 187 Bain’s Printing Telegraph, (1840,) 199 Wheatstone’s Rotating Disc Telegraph, (1841,) 203