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June 5, 1838.—In the Journal of Caroline Fox, under this date is an entry describing a visit to King's College, London, to see Wheatstone's electric telegraph, which “is really being brought into service, as last week they began laying it down between London and Bristol, to cost £250 a mile. . . . Wheatstone has been giving lectures, and in fact is in the middle of a course. No ladies are admitted, unfortunately; the Bishop of London forbade it; seeing how they congregated to Lyell's, which prohibition so offended that gentleman that he resigned his professorship.” June 5, I854.-More than seventy years ago, James Bowman Lindsay conceived the idea of signalling through water without wires, making experiments in the Tay, at Portsmouth, and elsewhere; and on June 5, 1854, he took out a patent for “a mode of transmitting telegraphic messages through and across water without submerged wires, the water being made available as the connecting and conducting medium.”
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S., E. Calendar of Discovery and Invention. Nature 119, 835 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119835b0
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