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ON Saturday, October 17, a special train from Victoria conveyed a party of about 200 guests, among whom were many leading electricians, engineers, and other well-known men of science, to Glynde, in Sussex, to witness the ceremony of the opening of the first telpher line erected in this country. The ceremony was performed by the Viscountess Hampden, and was of an exceedingly simple character; on lifting a small box containing a present which the Chairman of the Company invited her ladyship to accept, electric communication was instantly established between the dynamo in the engine-house and the telpher line, and a train loaded with clay at once began to move up an incline towards the Glynde Railway Station, amidst the applause of the assembled spectators. Whether this ceremony, which brought so many distinguished visitors downto Lord Hampden's estate on Saturday, is the inauguration of a great commercial enterprise is beyond our province to inquire; but it is unquestionable that the slight flash seen when Lady Hampden lifted the little box lying on the table in front of the engine-house marked the beginning of a new departure in electro-technology.
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Telpherage . Nature 33, 12–15 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033012a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/033012a0