Show inventions ingentio as A correspondent of notes and queries s mentions a a y volume in the french language 1 published at pans pang in the year 1660 which contains anticipations of several beveral mo ilert viert inventions alluding to the magnet and needles touched by it the writer anticipates the electric telegraph ile he says some say that by umpai s of a magnet or such like stone persons who are distant from each other may converse together after giving the details of the tho workings if such a machine the writer adds it is a fine invention but I 1 do not ank there is a magnet in the world that has sunt sart virtue beside it is inexpedient for would be too frequent and t too 0 0 much protect protected eo en I 1 the article is illustrated with a dial i scrib edwith with the letters of the alphabet ard and furnished with a needle as an inde tw tim volume also contains a remarkable article on 0 how hoir to enable a blind man to read th author thinks that a blind person may read by means of touch and proposes large wel wei shaped letters in iii relief this rare book has been putli pulli published hed a ahli ahll ani tyr irr rc 3 and anti ninety give five div e years year 3 and yet hr copy an i from is of the fifth edition |