Telegraphy the sense of a system that can transmit arbitrary messages over arbitrary distances. Lines of signalling relay stations can send messages to any required distance, but all these systems are limited to one extent or another in the range of messages that they can send. A system like flag semaphore, with an alphabetic code, can certainly send any given message, but the system is designed for short-range communication between two persons. An engine order telegraph, used to send instructions from the bridge of a ship to the engine room, fails to meet both criteria; it has a limited distance and
The Butler Arms Hotel first guest in the Butler Arms left an account of what he hoped for and what he found in the hotel and in Lough Currane. But his address, "Leamington," is so broad that it allows no enquiry into his own story. Hundreds of entries in the register have similarly broad addresses. The finding of such precise addresses as Scraftoft Hall or Thirlestane Castle has been great, and only equalled by finding the inclusion of double barrel and treble barrel Christian names that link the guests unmistakably with their positions and stories. The Butler Arms Hotel The Butler Arms Hotel in