My system is peculiar in the employment of _electro-magnetism_, or the _motive_ power of electricity, _to imprint permanent signs at a distance_.
"I made no use of the deflections of the magnetic needle as _signs_.

I required but _one conductor_ between the two termini, or any number of intermediate points of intercommunication.

I used _paper moved by clockwork_ upon which I caused a _lever_ moved by _magnetism_ to _imprint the letters_ and _words_ of any required dispatch, having also invented and adapted to telegraph writing a _new and peculiar alphabetic character_ for that purpose, a _conventional alphabet_, easily acquired and easily made and used by the operator.

It is obvious at once, from a simple statement of these facts, that the system of Messrs.

Wheatstone and Cooke and my system were wholly unlike each other.