Patrick Bernard Delany (28 January 1845 – 19 October 1924, Nantucket)[1] was an Irish-American electrician and inventor. Newspaper feature coverage in 1909 called him "the world's greatest telegraph expert and inventor."[2]
Biography
He was born in King's County, Ireland (now Offaly). He came to the U.S. at the age of 10[3] and learned telegraphy in Hartford, Connecticut. Gradually he worked up from office boy to be superintendent of lines. In 1872 he and Thomas Edison worked together as engineers for the Automatic Telegraph Company.[4]
His first patent, related to telegraph relays, was granted in 1873. In 1877 Delaney left the industry entirely, to work as a newspaper correspondent, editor, and writer, until the discovery in 1880 that his patent could be used as an alternative technology to challenge the Western Union Telegraph Company's monopoly on telegraph relays. Delaney's later inventions included more than 150 patents registered in the U.S. through 1922. Almost all relate to telegraphy in some way: they cover anti-induction cables which were "extensively manufactured at Pittsburg, Penn" as of 1895,[3] synchronous multiplex telegraphy to send six messages simultaneously over one wire, and rapid-machine telegraphy for land lines. His automatic telegraph system was capable of transmitting and recording 3000 words a minute over a single wire. In the 1890s he was experimenting at the Heart's Content Cable Station in Newfoundland and Labrador to improve the through-put of the transatlantic telegraph cable.[3]
^"Patrick B. Delany Dies; Electrical Inventor". Brooklyn New York Standard-Union (membership required). 20 October 1924. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^Downey, H.A. (4 December 1909). ""Surpassing the Demands of Their Day and Generation"". Richmond (Indiana) Item (membership required). Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ abcThe Electrician Electrical Trades Directory and Handbook. Benn Brothers. 1 January 1895. p. XXIV. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
^"REMINISCENCE, PATRICK BERNARD DELANY, 1908". Thomas A. Edison Papers Digital Edition. Rutgers University. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^"Delany's telegraph relay". National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
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