Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1873 — The Loomis Aerial Telegraph. [ARTICLE]

The Loomis Aerial Telegraph.

A bill incorporating the Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company was recently passed by Congress. This aerial telegraph scheme is a novel thing. The plan of Dr. Loomis, the inventor, is to telegraph from a high point of the Rocky Mountains to the highest attainable peak of the Alps, at which point a tower is to be erected, on the top of which a huge mast is to be placed. An apparatus capable of collecting electricity is to be put upon the upper end of this mast, by means of which, at such elevation, it is claimed that a strata oTtfie atmbspfieie wW be reached which is charged with electricity. Ground Connection, the same as is used in ordinary telegraphy, will be erected. This electrified strata of the atmosphere will, as with the ordinary single wire and ground connection, make a complete circuit, and it is claimed that the slightest pulsation of electricity at one tower will produce similar pulsation at the other. The company is to have a capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars with the privilege of increasing it to two millions if the Interest of the company shall require it The business and objects of the'corporation are stated in the bill to be to develop and utilize the principles and powers or natural electricity, to be used in telegraphing, generating light, heat and motive power, and otherwise, and operate any machinery, run by electricity, for any purpose. < t ■■■■■—