The telegraph manual: a complete history and description of the semaphoric, electric and magnetic telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, ancient and modern.

INDEX.
(FOR TABLE OF CONTENTS, SEE PAGE 7.)
PAGE. PAGE
Administration of American Telegraphs. 745 Batchelder's Insulator................ 54
French " 768 Battery, Voltaic Pile.................... 81
",Russian " 779 Chemical and Electri-'" Asiatic " 799 cal action of....... 86
Agamemnon's Telegraph............... 21 " Cruikshank's......... 88.
Alarm Telegraph, Cooke's............. 185' Wollaston's ImproveAlexander's Electric Telegaph.......... 139 ment in.......... 90
Alphabet of Steinheil's Telegraph........ 177 " Daniell's........ 90
i Chappe "....... 34. " " Smee's............. 93' Bain's "....... 361 " Buqson's............ 95
the English "....... 221' " Grove's............. 96
Morse Telegraph, American. 469: " Chester's ImproveMorse Telegraph, Austro- ment in......... 102
Germanic................ 472 " " of the Main Line.... 487
Morse Telegraph, European. 474 " " Stager s Arrangement
" Morse Telegraph, Russian... 476 of................. 492.
Ampere's Discoveries................... 115 Baker's, Henry N., Telegraph ImproveAmerican Wire, Strength of........ 521 ment......................... 723
Telegraph Insulation....... 536 Bavarian Insulator.................... 552
" Subterranean Telegraphs...... 587 Binding Screws......................... 442
Apparatus of Chappe Semaphore Tele- Biographical Sketch of S. F. B. Morse... 803
graph.............................. 32 " Amos Kendall.. 808
Apparatus of Electrical Telegraph..... 62 " " J. H. Wade..... 831
Apparatus of Steinheil's Electric Tele- " F. 0. J. Smith.. 811
graph................................ 159 " Win. M. Swain.. 822
Apparatus of Cooke's Electric Tele-' " John J. Speed.. 829
graph.............................199, 216 " An:on Stager.. 837
Apparatus of Davy's Electric Telegraph. 255 " " Levi L. Sadler.. 833
Brett's Printing 273 " " W. Tanner.... 825
" Magnetic " 286 " " Tal. P. Shaffner. 840
Highton's Needle " 295 Bishop's Submarine Cables.............. 603
Bakewell's Copying' 304 Black Sea " ".............. 618
Nott's Electric 310 Blank Forms of the English Telegraphs. 246
Siemens & Halskie's " 313 " " American " 467
" French State Electric " 325 Boston Fire Alarm Telegraph Insulator. 545
" " Railway" " 334 Bonnelli's Report on Submarine Electric'' " Bell " 346 Currents.......................... 508
Bain's Chemical " 354 Brett's Printing Telegraph............ 273
Froment's Dial " 373 Breguet's Telegraph Improvement...... 344
I-Iouse's Printing' 391 " " Paratonnerre....... 578
Morse's Original 404 Bright's Telegraph Apparatus........... 292
" Modern " 422 on Rteturn Currents............ 503
" for Repeating................. 494 " Insulator...................... 535
" Sounding the Ocean..... 652 British Subterranean Telegraphs....... 589
Arago's Discoveries.................... 115 " American "........ 756
Arbitrary Signals of Morse's Telegraph.. 477 Brackets for Insulators.............. 542
Arrangement of English Telegraph Wires 234 Brimstone Insulator................... 539
Asiatic Telegraphs, History of.......... 799 Bunson's Voltaic Battery.............. 95
Attraction and Repulsion.............. 67 By-Laws of American Telegraphs....... 750
Atlantic Telegraph Company.......... 622
" Telegraphs Projected......... 655 Cables, American Submarine........... 599
Austrian Insulator............... 553 European............ 607
Axial Magnetism............... 130 Cagliari Telegraph Station..-..... 620
Celerity of English Telegraph Signaling. 240
Bain's Printing Telegraph..........269 Chapp Semaphore' 42
Chemical "............. 354 Channing & Farmer's Telegraph ImproveBaltic Sea Telegraph Cable............ 616 ment................................. 730
Bal ize " "........... 617 Charter form of American Telegraphs... 749
Bakewell's Copying Telegraph......... 304 Charing Cross Telegraph Station....233, 242