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57 contestably proves that Mr. Cooke's Heidelberg (Mcineke's) telegraph was no other than Baron Schilling's.

On the 12th June a caveat for a patent was lodged, and it was determined to institute experiments with the projected telegraphic apparatus on a line of some extent.

Accordingly, on the 25th July, a trial was made at the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, then constructing, along wires one mile and a quarter in length, from Euston-square to Camden Town. This was the first instance of out-of-door telegraphing in England with a galvanic apparatus. It took place thirteen days before the decease of Baron Schilling, who died at St. Petersburg, on the 7th of August, without getting informed of the introduction of his telegraph into England.

In order to be able to try whether the instruments would work through considerable distances, Mr. Cooke had been permitted, at the Euston-square terminus, in a large building (the carriage house) to suspend many miles of wire, along winch the current was made to pass, besides the wires in the open air, to Camden Town.

On the 19th of November, 1837, Messieurs Cooke and Wheatstone concluded a partnership contract, and on the 12th December they gave in the specification of their