Pavel Schilling

Baron Pavel L'vovitch Schilling, Paul Schilling (c.1780, Reval (now, Tallinn, Estonia) - 1836 St. Petersburg, Russia), was a diplomat of Baltic German origin in service of Russia in Germany who constructed a revolutionary new telegraph, consisting of a single needle system in which a telegraph code was used to indicate the characters.

His first line of the electromagnetic telegraph was set up in Schilling's apartment in St Petersburg. In 1832, Schilling demonstrated the long-distance transmission of signals by positioning two telegraphs of his invention - his telegraph said to be the first electromagnetic telegraph in the world - in two different rooms of his apartment. Schilling was the first to put into practice the idea of the binary system of signal transmission.

The most important exhibit in the telegraph collection of A.S. Popov Central Museum Of Communications is the first telegraph device, invented by Shilling in 1832. The device was first used in 1835 on an underground line of the Russian Admiralty building, and was approved.

References

Article on Schilling's telegraph apparatus - in Russian

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