The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-19
The sehes Printing Telegraph.
ANTICIPATED REVOLUTION IN THE fBLEGRAPHI

The Hp Rhes Printing Telegraph.
ANTICIPATED REVOLUTION IN THE fBLEGRAPHic
WORLD.
The HERALD has heretofore, several oNMions,
alluded TO the Hughes telegraph instrument" and
given full and pretty ale statement Of Ito wonder
full capabilities. detailed 10 by IT. friends Parties
interested In other Geographic improvements have de-
MED the accuracy Of those state mens, and ridoued the
pretensions Of The Hughes instrument denouuoing 90
humbug, &c Having means Ut the time for per.
sonay testing the accuracy OF those counter statements
have thus far let them for what they were WORTH
But we 10 position 10 verify our own original
statements. Our repTter has seen the famous Hughes
instr ument-he has seen . pair Of them-workiug 10
gether of me each with the closest
and the wonderful apathy Of movement with the
other
These machines were 1t the ofnce OF the American
telegraph Co mpany in Wall street, where by the
esy Of the and the managers OF the Telegraph
Company reporter Afforded every facility 70
inspect their operations He coniesses to surprse-not
81 tho wonderful ieAts which he Witnessed TOR he
partly prepared for thatbut at the admirable simplicity
Of the arrangement from which such startling results
scarcely larger than family Bible, and might be easiy
packed away 10 sesar Dox Four cog woeols chain,
mssnes steel governor, pm here aod another there
you have about the whole description OF machine
that will talk TO you thousands OF miles away telling you
story in own language and In plain printing letters
four times faster than the mast rapid penman can write
down It's cspaci,y for speed, In fact Is limited only
BY the limited power Of the operator This capacity vas
,.sed in the presence Of our reporter without the io
chimes, by Its vOiition. roll out twenty eight hun
oed letters in minute: Tais extraordinary capacity
with anything ke such rapidly he could touch
thu Keys st enough IN the right order for spelling out
the words
Another and perhaps the most wonderful certainly the
rdiculed faculty in these machines, their capa
bity OF writing or printing both ways at the same mo-
ment Of time. When We stated this fact, about y ar
ago. tho statem eDt rdiculed and denied
lie other averments concerning his invention, not
only by bose ested other teegraphc syst but
also 10 series Of aoored editorial articles periodicals
claiming TO be scientific But our reporter has seen ths
exnaordnsry feat clearly, fully and satisfactorily de-
monstrated. Two machines placed nde by sde
with operator each, who sent message after mes
sage each other, the same wire simultaneously
without The least osting, and without the slightest error
either word or letter. since reporter this
fact de In c0mpaI with representatives, from
nearly al The CITY ournas at sne oioe Of the american
TO the seveIes estx line extending from New YORK
TO Bal or, Name and thence back 70 Boston, (making
of about e,gnt hundred ms) and every trial has
sbown the most satisfactory results-the Instruments
working perfectly through eight hundred miles Of wire
- In circuit OF two hundred miles and With
sutnsth Of slight have not the least per-
c.ptbe effect upon the magnets used BY the Morse and
are otber and very great practical advantages In
this Hughes Dsrr men over all Others hitherto IN use
such - It's capsci!y OF always keeping 10 working
the dn,urbng ELECTS OF atmospheric electricity,
II. ability 70 wnte secretly that IL, the
their OPERATOR At pleasure and insiananeousy cut or
ali efEcss except those ~ which IL wishes TO conmun
cate sod at pleasure communicate 70 al OH
the line its exceeding implicitly, which enables ope
rstor nowever inexperienced, TO transmit his message
contcty and with considerable rapidly; It's arrange
msnt, by which the presence Of operator 1t the
cevng ice dispensed with ~ his instrument can be
eaih AT tho wl,h OF distant Office, and will stop Of
iisef when the oespach has been received Its cheap
mesa the beng about four hundred per cent less
tnsn the Houie machine; It's compactness, NC &c But
these have heretofore been fully described In the
HEAD Go not II necessary to repeat them
here.
The patent for this most important invention (Which,
we believe, Dc sined 10 effect complete uton In
the TELEGRAPH busLors OF the country rs owned by the
American Telegraph Company In which, understand,
Prof Hughes large stakeholder, and OF which Peter
Cooper. Wilson q. Hunt and James Eddy, E.qs, are,
respectively. President Treasurer and General supern
thdent hi. company Is composed OF many OF the most
subsnnt al busincss men OF the city, together with
several Of the most experienced and successful
PRACTICAL teesrsphers Of the country. They have
sesCy under their control upwards Of three thousand
mis OF Telegraph wiro In daily operation throughou the
Tasi IRON New Yo,k 10 Newfoundland and their wires
viii connect exclusive ly With the Atlantic telegraph
cable, wbch Is row In course Of uciion, aud will
be laid down between Newiound and aud ireland next
June, hus cor meeting New York with London, Paris S.
Petersburg. NO.
No time vii, understand, be now Lost 10 multiply.
rg the Bu, hes mach mes, which within the ensuing
t~eve eighteen months viii, have good reason 10
know, be paced upon lines under the Amsrcan Dom.
papy't control touth from Newfoundland tn New Orleans
and the W,st lnola hlsnds and from this city 10
buualo and pbtsburxh al lcast