1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: George Richard Smith
424. SMITH, GEORGE RICHARD, 16 De Bouvoir Terrace, Culford Road — Inventor.
Comic electric telegraph and key board, which consists of a mahogany case, having in front a comic face, and three signs concealed by shutters, the features of the face and the shutters being capable of simultaneous motion by an electric current, which also rings a bell placed inside. With three signs, it not only conveys every letter in the alphabet, but exhibits distinctly the ends of letters, words, and sentences. By the bell arrangement, it intimates when a message is about to be sent, and is made to facilitate the deciphering of the signs. Magnetic polarity, as an indicator, being dispensed with, no electric disturbance in the atmosphere can render it ineffective; the internal arrangement being very simple, it will not soon be disordered by use.