1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: William Reid
427. REID, Wm., 25 University Street, Bedford Square — Inventor, Patentee, and Manufacturer.
Pair of electric-telegraph instruments, adapted for hotels, etc.; the same adapted for public companies, etc.; domestic telegraph, adapted for dressing-rooms, etc. See the following cuts.
An electrical apparatus for ringing bells in large mansions brought into instantaneous action by pulling a cord or lever; and capable of performing at the distance of 50 miles, with as much ease and rapidity as at 50 yards.
Electric-telegraph instrument, for the purpose of conveying general intelligence over the country.
Specimens of insulated wire, for submarine electric telegraphs; specimens taken from the English Channel, used in the electric telegraph between Dover and Cape Grinez, near Calais.