Excerpt from The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 141: Devoted to Science and the Mechanic Arts; Nos. 841-846; January June, 1896 The general introduction of this system for carrying correspondence would require but one or two wires between large cities, and a way wire for smaller places. Any num ber of towns up to the capacity of the wire could be communicated with in rotation, and messages exchanged. Beginning at one end of the line, each station would clear out with all the other stations, and would send to the main distributing and collecting office on the circuit, messages for points not on the wire. In this way each office would have what would practically be a half-hourly electrical mail ser vice. Telegraph letters would be perforated as fast as they were handed into the office; so that when the time of each office came around, the entire lot would be ready for transmission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.