Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-06-08

Another Astonishing Intention. The
Copying Telegraph There seems to be
no limit TO human ingenuity and invention
Before we cease to wonder at one triumph
of human intellect and skill. we are called on
to notice another still more wonderful. lr
The London Spectator of the 18th ult., we
find the following notice of newly in
vented telegraph machine, in comparison
with which all former inventions are small
affairs: shr
The Posto6ice superseded = The Posi-
master General; Col. MaberIy, and Mr.
Rowland Hill, may set their house in order,
and prepare to evacuale ST. Marin's-le-
Grande; for they will soon have 70 exclairn
with Ohello: ''Our occupations gone!'' 1t
seems, indeed, hard case, after so much
hard labor to improve the postal communica
lions of The country, and after steam has
done lis utmost 10 hasten The mail-bags to al
parts of The kingdom, that The well planned
arrangements and excellent machinery should
come 10 nought, bnt even they must submit
10 fate and scientific invention.
Not many months have passed since we
noticed MI. Ban's ingenious Marking Elec.
trio Telegraph, by me ans of which symbols
representing letters of the alphabet, are
marked on paper by electricity, and we pre-.
dicted that means would soon be found oil
transmitting along the telegraph wires exact
copies OF written communications. Whai
we then deemed probable has now been re.
allied. We have this week seen specimen
of writing by The Copying Telegraph invent.
ed by Mr.. T. G. Blackwell, wherein words
traced from the original were legibly copied
ON paper by an instrument that had no con.
nexion with the one TO which the transmit
ed message was applied, excepting by the
usual wires from The votaic battery The
letters traced on the paper appear of pale
color, on dark ground formed by numerou:
lines drawn close together The commun
cations thus traced we understand, may be
transmitted at the rate OF 500 letters of The
alphabet per minute of ordinary writing; anc
were shorthand symbols employed, the ra
pidity of transmission would be quadrupled
When this means of correspondence is il
operation, instead of dropping letter ntt
The posloffice box, and waiting days for al
answer, we may apply il directly to the Cop
ying Telegraph, have il copied al the dis
tant town IN minute or less, and receive
reply, in our correspondents handwriting
almost soon as the ink is dry with which
1t was penned. There are various means, TO,
for preserving The secrecy correspondence
the most curious OF which is, that The wriin,
may be rendered neatly invisible in all part
but the direction, until its delivery 10 th,
person for whom it is designed
The operations of the Copying Telegraph
are not limited to the tracing of written char
aciers. Letter press printing may be coplet
with even greater rapidly than writing, AM
fac-simile copies of the morning papers ma
thus be transmitted 10 Liverpool and Man
chester long before The papers lhemselve
are delivered TO their readers in London. =
The means by which these astonishing Ell
lecIs are produced we are not at presen
permitted TO state, as the invention is no
yet protected; but we are assured that ih,
method is simple, and that the mechanism i
neither costly nor likely to get out of order
II is, indeed, one of the peculiar features o
The Copying Telegraph that it cannot com
nit errors, because the communications
transmits are fac SMILES of the original wri
ting.