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Show Ti-legni)liliij- o u MutIhs Truln. The idea of telegraphing to moving trains had ii inception as eailv as 18.V1. but of the many (minis suggested all were impracticable in that ihey iuvi.lved a mechanical contact lietwcen ihe train and Ihe stationary coudiicloi t tbviouslv. it is not feasible lu make a circuit, cither through n sliding iinn projecting I mm a l car or by sn modifying the track of a railrond lhat its rails may be utilized its electric conductors But thai this may le done liy iniliicliou liiere can tie no doubt, for its feasibility has been shown in daily pntciu-e upon ihe hues ul ihe U'high Valley railroad loi llif nam two yeai-s A moviti:; train ma How receive, messages pasMii.; along a iieighlnniug wire a I most as readil as .New iork communicates com-municates with 1'luludelpluj hyonlmury method Noi (l.i,-:- (he great -p.-cd of the Hani luli-i lere w itb successful cum-iniuiirati.'ii cum-iniuiirati.'ii II it cinil.l attain Hie velocity veloc-ity of a meleiii Kignatf iitxni the wm-wtniM wm-wtniM acinus tlie inier euuig space itldui lielv lluprchMUg tln-lnsi lvi Upon ilie meial roofs ol the ear-- with ihe same certainty as il tin- ours were motionless mo-tionless upon a side track, ami ills no nen essential thai t Jit- train ami tin. Luetic Lue-tic si'p:nae,l in a deal an spai-K. lor uon-coudiic' 1:1-4 "' iion-magm-iu- sul-staiices sul-staiices m:i in interposed without Unlading Un-lading iratismi.-ston Paring the ineinor-able ineinor-able l-lizzar.l of Manh lt?S"j, the capac-!;y capac-!;y ol ihe sv-.;,-m n, ;.js partici.iat . was iillijcetedtnau 1 :iM t nct i e U-fl utl tbt U high road. -Chai les I. Hl.ekiitgliaiu in Scribne |
