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got made in imitation of the one exhibited by Baron Schilling at Bonn.
A description of it, by Professor Muncke, is inserted in his Article : Telegraph in " Gehler's Physikalisches Worterbuch," Tome IX., p. 111–115. This description is illustrated, although not well, in the Atlas, by engraved representations, in Tigs. 9, 10 and 11, on the second of the plates belonging to Tome IX.[1]
We know now, that Baron Schilling brought his electric-magnetic telegraph from St. Petersburg to Bonn, and that a similar one was made for Heidelberg. It remains to trace out how Schilling's contrivance found its way from Heidelberg to London.
It will surprise many to learn that the individual who became the cause of this being done was, when a new-born child, mentioned by Lord Byron.
In a letter which Lord Byron wrote on the 20th of February, 1818, from Venice to the publisher of his productions, Mr. John Murray, in Albemarle-street, London,
- ↑ Professor Muncke has printed that it had given him great pleasure to make, at the meeting of the Naturalists at Bonn, the acquaintance of Baron Schilling, possessing, as he said, "an incredible amount of information on a variety of subjects."
