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Show rrlmlUv Talairapby. Tho first parson to apply to purpose, of telfffraphy tbe galvanlq battery invented in-vented 'by lVdlU, In 1800, was Dr. Samuel T. Von Boommerlng, ot Mu 'nlehi- Ho employed the energy ot a powerful voltaic pllo to decompose water by means ot thirty-five gold pins Immersed In an oblong glass trough, lisch of theso pill electrodes rwas in connection with thlrty-flvo wjres forming thq telegraph lino, Tbo bubbles bub-bles evolved by these olcctrodos wero received lri figured and lettered tubes corresponding to each pluandtho messages mes-sages wcra thus spellod out. In 1810 he. telegraphed over two inllca of wire 'by- thls'prluiittvo mothod. As each septrato'pln was Immersed It decomposed decom-posed a certain portion of water and sent bubbles tlirough Its lettered or niimbered 'j,?l |