Ingenious as this idea was, the practical objections it offered prevented its adoption, and Government also appears to have discouraged the inventor. " Lord Melville," he observes, " was obliging enough in reply to my application to him to request Mr.... The electric telegraph: its history and progress - Page 5by Edward Highton - 1852Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1850 - 542 pages
...perfected, the inventor naturally applied to government. " Lord Melville," the discoverer relates, " was obliging enough, in reply to my application to...discovery ;' but before the nature of it had been yet known, except to the late Lord Henniker, Dr. Rees, Mr. Brande, and a few friends, I received an... | |
| Sir Francis Ronalds - Electric insulators and insulation - 1823 - 126 pages
...subject worthy of consideration*. > * Lord Melville was obliging enough, in reply to my ap• plication to him, to request Mr. Hay " to see me on the subject...discovery ;" but before the nature of it had been yet known, except to the late Lord Henniker, Dr. Rees, discover, that the defect rested somewhere between... | |
| Peter Progress (pseud.) - Clocks and watches, Electric - 1847 - 192 pages
...adoption, and Government also appears to have discouraged the inventor. " Lord Melville," he observes, " was obliging enough in reply to my application to...my discovery,' but before the nature of it had been yet known, except to the late Lord Henniker, Dr. Rees, Mr. Brande and a few friends, I received an... | |
| R. Yorke Clarke - Railroads - 1850 - 256 pages
...adoption, and Government also appears to have discouraged the inventor. " Lord Melville," he observes, " was obliging enough in reply to my application to...my discovery,' but before the nature of it had been yet known, except to the late Lord Henniker, Dr. Rees, Mr. Brande and a few friends, I received an... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1850 - 526 pages
...perfected, the inventor naturally applied to government. " Lord Melville," the discoverer relates, '- was obliging enough, in reply to my application to...my discovery;' but before the nature of it had been yet known, except to the late Lord Henniker, Dr. Rees, Mr. Brande, and a few friends, I received an... | |
| Sir Francis Ronalds - Telegraph - 1871 - 46 pages
...Constancy : it is easily perceptible, that neither climate, season, time of day, or any of the cir* Lord Melville was obliging enough, in reply to my...discovery ; " but before the nature of it had been yet known, except to the late Lord Henniker, Dr. Rees, Mr. Brande, and a few friends, I received an... | |
| Frederick Ebenezer Baines - Postal service - 1895 - 376 pages
...who was all politeness, but from another. ' Lord Melville was obliging enough,' writes Sir Francis, ' in reply to my application to him, to request Mr. Hay to see me on tlie subject of my discocery; but before the nature of it had been yet known except to the late Lord... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 796 pages
...induced even to try an electric telegraph. " Lord Melville was obliging enough," says Mr. Ronalds, "in reply to my application to him, to request Mr....and a few friends, I received an intimation from Mr. Brande, to the effect ' that telegraphs of any kind were then wholly unnecessary, and that no other... | |
| Electrical engineering - 1875 - 328 pages
...telegraph " without a shudder. Speaking of his treatment by tho Government of that day, Mr. Ronalds says : — " Lord Melville was obliging enough, in...my discovery ; but before the nature of it had been yet known, except to the late Lord Heimiker, Dr. Rees, Mr. Brando, and a few friends, I received au... | |
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