Benjamin Beale
of East Greenwich
1858 Exhibited drawings of an apparatus for paying out and drawing in electric telegraph cables, consisting of an arrangement of machinery that will act as the retarding apparatus when paying out the cable, by forcing or drawing (or by both) air, gas, water, or any other fluid, which apparatus will act as the motive power engine for hauling in the cable, when the pressure of steam, air, gas, water, or any other fluid is applied for such purpose.