Show work of sixty years the electrical world and engineer in an article on sixty years of the telegraph says the past week has witnessed the sixtieth annever sary 0 the electromagnetic telegraph it being may 1 1844 when prof morse was able to demonstrate the u of his invention in reporting at washing ton the proceedings of the whig con bention at baltimore since that time the history of the telegraph in this country and elsewhere has been one of universal benefit it is certainly a moot question whether of late years ohp telegraph has advanced as rapidly as it might have done and whether it has not become more or less crystal iced and fossilized in its apparatus and methods yet even this statement must be made guardedly tor while the great telegraph systems the world over appear to look askance on auto matic and machine methods the wire less telegraph inventions have been generally taken up and pushed with great success and if there is anything more wonderful and more stimulating in the domain of electrical advance at the present time than the wireless we do not 1 now what it Is the amount of service rendered to the public by the telegraph sixty years after its practical inception may be gauged from the fact that in only four or alve of the leading countries or a ithen tic messages are dis patched annually exclusive of those handled by leased private wires in this country the record is now ably about a year while great britain does not fall very far behind that germany and france together are good for another while russia italy austria and spain will probably account tor an other batch of equal magnitude the telephone to day has asserted for itsel the function of knitting closely to gether the various communities in which it is used but it is still the proud boast of the telegraph and the submarine cable that they have been the great instrumentality in anniel lating distance promoting intercourse and commerce and bringing the na eions together |