Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lamond” in chapter 5 of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
... current directed to the appropriate wire.
Lesage, at Geneva, in 1774, actually constructed a telegraph arranged in this manner, the end of each wire having a pith-ball electroscope attached.
Lamond , in 1787, employed a single wire, employing an electrical machine and electroscope in each of two rooms, and thus talking with Madame Lamond by the peculiar movements of the pith-balls according to a...
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