Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-12-05

HHghess EmprOy ed Magnetic Telegraph
The readers CT New York paper, who are
daily furnished with the telegraphic summary
OF the history Of the United States, from East
port to New Orleans, and the farthest West,
by the fullness of the reports have been taught
to believe that the inyention of Prof. Morse
has attained point where farther improve
ment seems mere possibility. Such, howev-
er, is not the opinion of those who are brought
into editorial contact VII the telegraph, and
who are made sensible of its short comings in
point OF correctness and its slowness Of ope-
ration.
What Professor Morse made practical, Mr..
Hughes has perfected, so as to leave but q
scsnty field for future mechanism -and we
have in his invention simplicity of operation,
united TO power of transmission little short
of miraculous. The magnetic machine of Mr..
Hughes, in place of the hieroglyphics of the
Morse system, writes in good plain hand like
the House patent, with this difference, that in
the Hughes instrument the letters are upon a
wheel, which constantly revolves, the impress
sion being given by an apparatus which press
es the paper to the proper letter, with unerring
certainty, and speed before impossible. 1t is
operated by means of keys, in all respects re-
sembling the key board of piano, and any
one knowing the alphabet sufficiently to spell
the message he desires to send, can transmit
it himself feat to be accomplished only by
long practice under the Morse system.
Not only has the new machine been simpli-
fed to this degree-but by it the same wire
can be used to transmit messages simultaneous.
ly from either end. In fact the number Of
messages passing at the same time is only lin
tied by the capacity of the instrument. In
other words, if the instrument can send two
hundred per minute, ten different messages of
twenty words can be sent at the same period
of time, by ten machines on single line. The
apparatus of parties in New York and New
Orleans, being set in unison, each responds TO
the other, nor ever records the wrong mes
sage. Messages designed TO- New Orleans, can
by this new process, be sent direct and the
contents not made known at all intermediate
stations, as by the present mode, thus eDsuring
a secrecy much to be desired.
1t has also peculiarly by which the in
strument of remote office can be put in ope-
ration and the message sent in the temporary
absence of the person in charge to receive it.
In word, from the complex, and hard to be
understood system as first put in operation by
Prof. Morse, we have now q machine which
can be practically used by any clerk of ordina-
ry intelligence, and one capable of conveying
lDICFIDAJlOu VIII IH6 COETeCIueSS anu SSCI0CJ
of an autograph letter.
The instruments we have seen in operation
are owned by the American Telegraph Com
psny, and upon the completion of the Trans
Atlantic line will be used there. Before that
period, they must come into general use where
ever the greatest speed and unerring certainty
are desired in telegraphing. No present line
can compete with others using the Hughes
Machine, with more success than the mail now
has in competing with the present telegraph.
NJ Y Tribune.