Needle System

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Cooke And Wheatstone Telegraph - Operation - One-needle Telegraph
... This system was developed to replace the failing multi-wire telegraph on the Paddington to West Drayton line ... Whereas the two-needle system needed a three-unit code (that is, up to three movements of the needles to represent each letter), the one-needle system used a four-unit code, but had ... Like the preceding two-needle system, the code units consisted of rapid deflections of the needle to either left or right in quick succession ...
Cooke And Wheatstone Telegraph - History
... In May 1837 Cooke and Wheatstone patented a telegraph system which used a number of needles on a board that could be moved to point to letters of the alphabet ... The patent recommended a five-needle system, but any number of needles could be used depending on the number of characters it was required to code ... A four-needle system was installed between Euston and Camden Town in London on a rail line being constructed by Robert Stephenson between London and Birmingham ...

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