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Show Edison's Latest Invention. New Bbighton, February 1. The Railway Telegraph and Telephone Company gave an exhibition on the Staten Island Railway this afternoon of the new method of sending send-ing and receiving telegraphio messages on a railway train under full headway. Among those on the train were- Governor Leland Stanford of California, Vice-President Sykes of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad; David Dows, Vice-President of the Bock Island; Stuyvesant Fish, Vice-President of the Illinois Central, and Thomas A. Edison. The battery was in one of the passenger cars with the tjround wire connected with the axle of the wheel - and track. The I other wire connected with the tin roof of the car. The car roofs were connected by an insulated wire. The common electric magnet, worked by a Morse key, was used. The car roof messages were transmitted by induction to the permanent wires on the poles along the line of the railroad a distance dis-tance of twenty-five to thirty-five feet. Messages were sent to and from New York and other points with perfect facility while the train was running at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Mr. Edison said the new wonder in telegraphy would be introduced at once on the Illinois Central Bailroad. |