Telegraph Companion, DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE AND ART OF THE MORSE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH. Taliatione Preston BY TAL. P. SHAFFNER, Secretary of the American Telegraph Confederation, NEW-YORK CITY. Et non "eripuit cælo fulmen," Fulguri mentem fudit, et orbem lumine cinxit. Chancellor Pirtle to Prof. Morse. "Canst thou send lightning, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are ?"-Job. As the inventor of the Electric Telegraph, you, Prof. Morse, stand pre-eminent."-Arago. VOLUME I. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY PUDNEY & RUSSELL, No. 79 JOHN-STREET. 1854. CONTENTS. ART. II-GEOGRAPHY OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, The Winds and the Currents-Tides and the Seas-Depth ART. IV.-THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH CONFEDERATION.. GENERAL SUPPLIES-Nitric Acid-Sulphuric Acid-Zincs -Quicksilver-Porous Cups-Tumblers-Platinum--Mes- sage-heads-Envelopes-Clocks-Pencils-Pens-Black Ink -Registers and Magnets-Annual Expense-Prices Pro- American Telegraph Confederation-Atmospheric Telegraph. 47 Alarm Telegraph-Galvanic Batteries... Balize Atlantic and Ohio Line-The Magnetic Telegraph St. Louis and New-Orleans Co.-New-Orleans and Ohio Boston Telegraph Offices-New-York and Boston Line Wade New-York, Washington and New-Orleans Line-Texas Line- Baltimore Western Line-Bain Line-Indiana and Illinois Yellow Fever in the South-Maysville Cable-New-York and House Line-Sleet-Telegraph Controversies-To Corres- Cuba Telegraph-Texas and Red River Telegraph-Col. Complimentary-Tal. P. Shaffner-Letter of Operators of Hon. Amos Kendall.. Philadelphia Arbitration Case-Mr. Kendall Triumphant.. Extension of Morse Patents-Scientific American. FEBRUARY. 65 |