{"id":220,"date":"2020-01-28T17:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=220"},"modified":"2020-01-28T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:21:51","slug":"the-spagnoletti-speaking-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2020\/01\/the-spagnoletti-speaking-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spagnoletti Speaking Instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great great grandfather <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I125&amp;tree=vc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Thomas<\/a>, in his handwritten autobiography of 1926, refers to his time on the railways in Wales in the early 1870s, and using the &#8220;Spagoletti speaking instrument.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_221\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221\" class=\"size-large wp-image-221\" src=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WilliamThomasp11snip-1024x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WilliamThomasp11snip-1024x191.png 1024w, https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WilliamThomasp11snip-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WilliamThomasp11snip-768x143.png 768w, https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WilliamThomasp11snip-1536x286.png 1536w, https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WilliamThomasp11snip-2048x382.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spagnoletti Code<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This turns out to be a form of the Single Needle Instrument developed by Charles Ernest Spagnoletti. I&#8217;ve found details of this at Sam Hallas&#8217; page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samhallas.co.uk\/railway\/single_needle.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.samhallas.co.uk\/railway\/single_needle.htm. <\/a>He gives an explanation and diagram of the code, which is a representation of morse code.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alphabet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This confirms William&#8217;s recollection of the signalling code he learned as a youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great great grandfather William Thomas, in his handwritten autobiography of 1926, refers to his time on the railways in Wales in the early 1870s, and using the &#8220;Spagoletti speaking instrument.&#8221; This turns out to be a form of the Single <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2020\/01\/the-spagnoletti-speaking-instrument\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explanations","category-people","tag-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}