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pleased with Schilling’s instrument, and he determined at once to get one for exhibition at his lectures.
I have lately, at Heidelberg, in the Western Main Street (Westliche Hauptstrasse), opposite the former convent of Dominicans, in the upper story of the house under No. 52, called: Zum Riesen, where, at present, the Cabinet of natural philosophy is located, found in a store-room, belonging to it, the apparatus which Professor Muncke 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: Telepraph in “Gehler’s Physikalisches Wörterbuch,” Tome IX, p. 111-115. This description is illustrated, although not well, in the Atlas, by engraved representations, in Figs. 9, 10 and 11, on the second of the plates belonging to Tome IX.[1]
We know now, that Baron Schilling brought his electro-magnetic telegraph from St. Petersburg to Bonn,
and that a similar one was made for Heidelberg. It
- ↑ 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.”
