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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
In 1892, I suggested that communication could be established between ship and ship by means of coils, and as a trial of the system on a large scale has recently been made with the view of establishing communication between North Unst lighthouse, situated on Muckle Flugga, and the mainland (fig. 1), thence to the lighthouse station at Burrafiord, a distance of two miles, a record of the trials may be of interest to the Society.
page 196 note * Engineer, vol. lxxiii. p. 292.
page 196 note † Jour. of Society of Arts, vol. xlii. p. 274.
page 196 note‡ British Ass. Reports, 1886, p. 546; 1887, p. 611.
page 197 note * Shape of coil, circle, square, or rectangle, &c., is not very material, and in practice mast be altered to suit circumstances, as for instance in a ship (fig. 2).