Show W air telegraphy isicc since mr edison called caled attention to lu lih iii 4 scheme of air telegraphy recently applied appl icil with sit success ess facts bire b ire been made known that give rise to tile doubt if lie he is really entitled to he be regarded as the solo inventor or discoverer of the idea the case does not eve even seem to be one of coincident discovery it if a story from kansas city is true which declares irei that mr edison actually got lii his idea ide a of telegraphy by in induction from 31 mr r william wiley smith an of that city it is averted asserted that in ill ao 10 sir smith while making mailing ex with the tel eption c by which the sound scon a concert cert were transmitted from kingstown ind to learned that the mus music i I 1 c had bad also been heard in ili richmond a point with which be ind had no direct connection lie ile crave gave this curious ii I 1 much tile thou it I 1 it and reached the conclusion that tile matter was to be explained by I 1 the principles of induction there bein being several parallel wires on the poles pole he was operating along com incel of this fact lie began experimenting experiment inZ to lint his discovery to practical use and to that end constructed an tit apparatus on which he secured a patent in 1881 something more than a 1 I year ay mr smith associated with him in a riis his inventions mr edison and mr E L S gilliland who lie he learned were experimenting peri in inthe the same line etwas it was duo due to their combined invests investigations ganious that mr edison anally triumph ci and perfected the plan first success fully tested on the staten island islam railway mr smith recently said of mr edison lie is one of the age only tell athu what you A want ant to accomplish and ito he will ill provide you with an instrument for the purpose the success of car t telegraphy cle graphy is ii greatly due to him bim ile he took hold bold and perfected the apparatus which I 1 had outlined and so si is entitled to share with me whatever glory and alli profit it will bring ile is still it at work on the problem lem of induction and hopes to aply apply this invention of ours in ili such a way that ships at sea many miles apart cats can exchange messages 0 of auy ill length by signals ig nals this he expects to accomplish by moans means of u using sins 1 21 I balloon kite with metallic boatin coating tin foil oil I 1 believe soaring boarin several hundred foot above leek deck and controlled by a fine fenc wire hy by this means it is believed telegraphing 0 will be done from island to island or be tween main shores much more cheaply than by the present cable it is interesting to note nolo in ili tit this Is connection that a young man of cilar cincin it clatl named yi 61 ivey Ola claims illis to II 11 iw discovered this principle of induction inducts most lost curiously three years ap ago 0 IN lien licit lie ie was at working onkit g some clec electrical experiments on liis his fathers farm lie ilic lad hall a 1 I series of wires it ires rigged up ill in the llie orchard and in the course of his investigations viesti actions discovered that tho 1 di II act current of one wire it was as reproduced along 0 another forty feet dis unit taut by induction md lie ile secured a patent latent in ili accordance with this discovery on oil nn ili instrument tic he termed a resonator mr belvey now no claims priority in this discovery As ili an indication of the peculiar acu concurrence erenee of ideas idea in ili the discoveries cov co of great rent truths trullis and principles I 1 here hereto to note that in a member of the inter infer ocean stuff stiff had numerous hiten interviews bews with an ail eccentric individual in ili this ibis city known familiarly ns As professor woodman who was then vir wrestling estling to the argo of madness u with ith a subtle philosophy embracing P new principles in ili the law lair of ghys phys physics ic s and among his pretended discoveries were nere 1 a I means to control the explosive quality of bheam ind and i plin to telegraph ty by induction lie ile succeeded in fit perfect ins lit a bailer of ordinary ut tit eisile strength strength that livid held steam ata at a pressure cl of pounds iio to tile the inch with no other oilier vent than that of a gun fill tube lube in a liala hidi nh massipe gas mas pipe lie did not flot succeeding sneered succeed ns ng far as we liae been able to ascertain in applying his induction chiefly perhaps through ank dakof of weins means and the inability to enlist the sen service ice of capital in ili what to lie be visionary schemes lie ito used to insist homey giov ever with the greatest vehemence indeed with irrational irr enthusiasm that telegraphy by inu luction would be a great discovery or of the me future ami he e added with bonio bome bitler bitterness iless 1 I njanE man dison ai pro probably babir 0 gel et the credit of it igei explained tl this theory by tile the declaration that lie he I iad had ad chemically determined the hie existence existe tice of a third atmospheric clein clement eni to which lie he haughin biad diun thein he name verdone bonc the full understanding 4 of I 1 hieb lie said dould the old philosophy philo sephy and groeso called lion 0 properties highly live under unde r special conditions the experience with willi air I 1 telegraphy lele raphy I 1 ii simply of a kind avith that attending ill tile the majority of 1 great ill intentions enticing the result of ye years 1 rs of thought investigation nud fuld the of phenomena a it il is not flot at nil n 11 b strange t I 1 that bc cr 11 minds W ivil athill liin tile the same period lc be engaged with aith corresponding bonding explorations wu wd have but to recall the cama to lind an all illustration I 1 alien almost simultaneously edison Professor gray aud anti gelicame Beli came before tile put public lic with practical solutions of the problem all inen inan do not dot patent their ideas nor liardo do they alnas succeed in ill getting them into form but few things 0 s are commoner 1 than a patent embodying the ideas of sacral and far removed 0 per bOlIS dk A batory is gi going ding the rounds of un tit cAil liable young gentleman who is something of a practical joker not lon long 0 a ago r 0 lie w dib covered dillile Il lile promenading me ine on oil borth bell ile birdet the lie driver if at 11 dosed brou gli hain ain dozing avyle ciway ullon the b lux bix ix bour our art friends frt S iea lening iii his silently lly d the ilie door of tile the carriage and alosio closius it will a loud boap add ill in inia imaginary ician person within Vi thill abill politely dollin doffing 0 lin his hat to call the driver drive abad had meanwhile I 1 nii I 1 rid and glin lillic icing ilig li hns atily tily over ins ilis s ll 11 ion hier prece ived tit the ava wag 7 smiling upon hii 4 as lie fie thought thong lil ilia nhen thit gell bleill ill looked uti at liviu and uttered the alie void sold ibi homo anino lie he took look up fill the abe reins ind and art aniio in ot off no u one oile but bill lie file lad ml if lr h r aji 14 li lian an ill e cr bhat after she cr oed the of tile the family AIL r |