Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-08-23
NEW STYLE OF TELEGRAPH.
An Atmospheric Telegraph Destined to Rival
the Electric,


the Electric,
Concerning some interesting OK
periments in telegraphing, the Lon
don Telegraph says
ga novel kind of telegraph, the
invention Of Signor Guattari, an
Italian, was submitted to the in
spection Of party Of scientific gen.
tlemen yesterday, at private house
in Gloucester street, Warwick
square. The invention aims at OBJ
tanning by the use Of atmospheric
power the same or better results
than those obtained by electric and
magnetic forces. To this end he
charges a reservoir with compressed
air, and by tho operation of valves
worked in the same manner as those
in the ordinary telegraph system,
sends pulsations through a tube,
which pulsations are made to do the
work on the receiving instrument
with an effect corresponding with
that of the electric current passed
along the insulated wires. The in
vention has been so fully recognized
by the royal institution of Naples
that they have paid to Sig. Guattari
the rare compliment Of awarding
him a gold medal. 1t is further re-
ported that the system is to be gen.
orally adopted on board the Italian
ships of war for the transmission Of
orders from the command officer to
subordinate departments.
"At the experiment yesterday
there were present the Italian Am
bassador, Count Maffei, a gen tleman
from the engineering department of
the Postal Telegraph, representative
of the Kensington Art Department,
and contributors to the scientific
journals and the general press. The
working apparatus was well con-
tanned in q stand or table about eight
feet long by five wide and four deep.
Air pumps, worked by crank, are
used to charge the reservoir. The
amount Of pressure is shown on a
dial. The Geographic instrument is
worked by hand in the ordinary
way. A very considerable coil of
gutta percha tubing, half an inch in
diameter and said to be about mile
in length, was connected with the
instruments in the room. The ex-
periments began by the charging of
of its actual capacity-this being, at
the same time, a comparatively
crude, though not unsightly ma
| chine.
'The method adopted for the
working Of the Guattari is the Morse
or printing cipher system. Signor
Guattari, at the transmitting end,
sent through this message "The
apparatus has already experimental
on the pLebiScite" The words were
recorded in cipher at the receivin G
end, and were read off by the gem
tleman from the post Office, who re-
marked, however, that in two or
more instances, the letters had run
into each other. The same authori-
ty.found the valve at the transmit
ting end difficult to work, and re-
curing a manual pressure of some
thing like seven pounds, instead OF
the mere touch required by the reg
ular Morse instruments. In operat-
ing on it himself he sent through the
alphabet correctly, and transmitted
all the messages he attempted with
accuracy This was done through a
line of tubing partly wound round a
drum-and partly lying in an irreg-
ular heap on the floor. In actual
service lead tubes might be used.-
Experiments were next tried on the
apparatus for communicating with
various parts of the ship, and subse-
quently with what may be called the
domestic telegraph. In this case
Signor Guattari dispensed with the
use of the reservoir, and, by mere
manipulation of an air ball at the
end of tube, recorded true cipher
characters on the long strip Of paper
which runs over the small wheels OF
the receiving instrument. This is
the kind of telegraphy to which the
Guattari apparatus is best adapted
In large hotels, in ships of war, in
communication from factories OF
contingencies, from private resi-
dences to places Of business, and in
town communication generally, the
system promises to be advantageous
at is Independent Of foreign aid
is less likely to get out of order than
wires conducting electric currents,
and will not be more expensive
For longer distances, on regular
public lines, the invention would
probably not apply SO we'll or work
SO rapidly as the present telegraphs
The inventor is, however equally
sanguine in this as in smaller
branches, and claims, not without
reason, that his apparatus will be
less expensive than electric batteries,
and will be less subject to the infu-
ence of those atmospheric storms
which sometimes put the Geographic
system Of a whole country out OF
order.
"Signor Guattari was heartily
congratulated on the performance OF
his apparatus. The new telegraph
certainly reflects high honor on the
inventive genius of the originator"
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ARKANSAS GRAMMAR. An Arkan-