Thom's Irish Who's Who/Delany, Patrick Bernard

DELANY, Patrick Bernard, Electrician; b. King's Co., Jan. 28th. 1845; son of James and Margaret Delany. Educ.: private and parochial schools, Ireland and U.S.; m. March 31st, 1869, Annie M. Ovenshine, of Philadelphia; learned telegraphy in Hartford, Conn., worked at same, office boy to Supt. of Lines; expert operator, newspaper corr., editor and writer; inventor 150 patents, covering anti-induction cables, synchronous multiplex telegraphy, transmitting six messages simultaneously over one wire; adopted by British Government (awarded gold medal and diploma International Inventions Exhibition, London, 1885); automatic systems for ocean cables; rapid machine telegraphy for land lines, etc; claims to have perfected system of automatic telegraphy, transmitting and plainly recording 3,000 words per minute over single wire; awarded Elliott Cresson gold medal twice and John Scott legacy medal, Franklin Inst.; gold medal, Buffalo Expn., 1901, Expn., 1904; Mem. Am. Inst. Elec. Engrs St. Louis (ex-v.-p.), Franklin Inst., A. A. A. 3. Res.: Nantucket, Mass, U.S.A.