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Show A TELEGRAPHIC NOVELTY. Wonderful Icvention. Few of our readers understand that the W. U. telegraph oflice in this city contains a novelty in tho telegraphic tele-graphic line, in fact one of tho most woiideiftd electrical inventions of the ' age. When the first Atlantic cable was projected, telegraphers and electricians were as unanimous as the great unscientific un-scientific public in condemning the scheme as no less Quixotic than a voyage to the moon. The argument which seemed to settle the matter and prove its impossibility was based upon the fact that the longest land lines worked without relaying or repeating of business, were at most but a few hundred miles in length, and that these short chcuits had to bo most carefully insulated to iusuro their, success iul working du ri ng an ord i-nnry i-nnry rainstorm; and when one came to dream of telegraphing a distance ol three thousand miles, at least six times as far aa any land hue in operation, op-eration, and this througW the depths of the ocean, he was, at once, considered con-sidered a fit subject for a lunatic ,isy-lum. ,isy-lum. It was predicted, even if a three thousand mile cable could be made aud laid, an apparent impossibility impossi-bility in itself, that tho amount of electricity, or lightning, necessary lo work instruments at either end, would be so great that tho cable would be burnt up in no time, or that if the lightning spared it, tho monsters of the mighty deep would make mince meat, or the mermaiJs clothes lines, of the thing, before it fairly rested upon the earth. But Atlantic cables are now established estab-lished facts, and the world has not yet ceased wandering at these fcate when another advance in the science ot telegraphing tel-egraphing is announced that taxes the credulity of the unsophisticated to a greater extent than did the cable of IboS. Within a few years a telegrapher telegraph-er of Boston has invented an instrument instru-ment knowu as the "Duplex," which insures the sending of messages both ways over a single wire at the sanle time. Among railroad men there is a current cur-rent joke of great antiquity that is always al-ways recalled by gome one when there has been a collision of trams moving in opposite directions. It is that the train tneu have been again trying to make two trains pass each other on a single track, an apparent absurdly that the Boston telegrapher has succeeded suc-ceeded in meeting and overcoming in the transmission of telegrams. And by this means the capacity of all land telegraph lines and short cables is doubled aud thero is, no doubt that very soon ilia new system will be so far perfected that even three thousand mile Atlantic cables will carry messages both ways at once without the least possibility of confusion con-fusion or danger of "sm.isb-ups." Were not the "Duplex" at work in the Salt Lake office and an established fact in our midst we might still be inclined, in-clined, to cavil a good deal in regard to it, but there is uo longer a chance for question. Daily and nightly now tho telegrams going from and coming to Salt Lake pass and repass each otner on a single wire without the loss Of the most minute portion of a word or even the rounding of! of the corners of emphatic sentences. We have not space to enter into any explanation of this seeming enigmatical en-igmatical in von i ion, but suffice it to say that the Herald reporters having hav-ing heard many expressions of in-eroduility in-eroduility among Salt Lake business men as to the possibility of such a thing, has In ken pains to investigate the matter, suid has satisfied himself that " Duplex" instruments are in use here as well as in other parta of the " known world," to speak a la Ciosar. The fact exists. It is not a dream, but a.in'i accmpl;, exploding nnumerable theories as to electrical currents, and upsetting moss-grown doctrines in regard to this mysterious ngent. And if any person does not believe this let him do as several inquisitive in-quisitive and skeptical East Temple street gents have already done, bet his cash that it isn't so, and appeal to tho " Knights of the Lightning" in regard thereto. He will be readily satisfied to the extent of his "pile," and depart wondering at the marvelous marvel-ous things existing 'twixt heaven and earth " That are not dreamt of in thy pbUqspphy, Horatio!" |