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I’ve used these but they certainly predate 1905. In fact, the one I used would have been made in the 1890s I’m sure ( it was standard equipment at the railway I worked at in the 1970s ). If you’ve ever seen an old railway timetable you will often see diagrams of the telegraph arms indicating which “pairs” go where; this is why. You have a little portable kit in a canvas bag with a collapsible pole, two caps for the pole which have a strap on them to engage the bare telegraph wire and a flexible lead down to the kit. Use the pole to hang the caps on your desired pair and then get on the handset and yell for the dispatcher. Usually used on work trains, never heard of them on scheduled trains, although by the 1970s those had radios.
EDIT: spelling
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