Nevada Appeal at 150: March 13, 1886: Edison’s air telegraph

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Nevada Appeal at 150: March 13, 1886: Edison’s air telegraph





















Mr. Edison has contributed a paper upon his new system of telegraphy by induction between moving railway trains and the fixed stations of the road, the statement in which clearly enough entitles him to his familiar appellation of “The Wizard.” The introduction to his description of the air telegraph gives us a clue to his methods of investigation. Nearly all of his great discoveries have been made while he was studying in quite another direction, and the air telegraph is not an exception to the rule. It was while hunting down a new force, with which he expects to astonish  …
Source: Nevada Appeal at 150: March 13, 1886: Edison’s air telegraph