The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-05
A Revolution I'm Tefegrapflng.
From the Baltimore American.

Tbs poles for Mr.. Little's new system OF
telegraphing are now being erected between
New York and Washington. On the Wash
ineton road the poles IRE lying at regular
intervals, and the erecting parties, under
charge of Mr.. Westervelt, will be along in
a few davs to put them up and suspend the
wires. II is anticipated that the National
Telegraph Line will be in operation By the
lst of March. ''Es
We examined the instruments o. this new
system invented by Mr.. Little some six.
months since, and, it will be remembered,
gave detailed account OF its operation. 1t
is entirely different from the Morse system,
and will be able to transmit two hundred
words per minute over one wire. Twenty
words is as much rs the most rapid operator
by the Morse system can transmit, 80 that
one wire under the Little system Will be
able to do as much work as ten Of the wires
now in use. President Orion, of the Wes-
'ern Union Company, in his annual report,
ridicules the CLAIMS of Mr.. Little :; but we
assure him and all interested in telegraph
ing that we witnessed the operation OF Iris
instrument in company with two of the most
experienced Geographic experts in the coun-
try, and that by actual count it transmitted
ten hundred and forty letters per minute.
The Morse alphabet was used and the trans
mission was as perfect and accurate as was
ever before transmitted on any instrument
running n. ona-tenth of its speed.
The fact that the line is being built should
be satisfactory evidence to all, doubtless,
that it is reality. Those who have con-
troll of it have had as much experience in
the Geographic business as Preside at Orion,
and would not invest several hundred thou
sands Of dollars on mere experiment.
Mr.. Little anticipates to be able to at once
reluce the rate of telegraphing to one.half
o. present prices, and ultimately to make a
uniform tariff of one cent per word to all
distances. This would draw all business
CORRESPONDENCE from the mails, and multiply
the amount of telegraphing to tentold what
it now il.
The followi,, summary of this new tele-
graphic novel; .nt ne copy from the Phila-
delphia Day:
HMr. Oh. Craig, formerly..superintend-
eut of the Now York Associated Press, Is
now engaged in the survey Of routes Tor
the National Telegraph Company, and will
apply to the now lines Titles Automatic
System of Telegraphy,' which makes it pos
sible to transmit as many messages per hour
over one wire az could be sent under the
present system over thirty wires. 1t Ia
estimated that the cost Of replacing all the
existing lines with tho new invention would
not exceed over 81, 50),0 Mr.. George r.
Hicks. the agent of the Associated Press at
Chicago, has tested the new system, and re-
ports that 200 words per minute can be
transmitted on wire over q circuit Of 1000
miles, and that boys and girls can prepare
the dispatches ut the rate of 500 words each
per hour. as many being employed as ore
| necessary. the method of operating tht
Little machine 10 thus described by the in,
veutor: A ribbon of paper is perforated
by n machine with characters 1t is pro
posed to transmit. The transmitting
instrument is magnetic engine o.
motor Of the usual construction with
governor to keep its speed uniform. Th'
receiving machine ia essentially the same
i ribbon of paper, perforated, is PLACED
upon a roller, and the engine is set in mo
ton by two-cup battery; wheel with
platinum edge or pen, constructed like
brush, Is made to press upon the paper, ant
the connection Of the wires is such that IL
trayersing the spaces punctured out OF tn
paper ribbon, n current is sent upon tn
line, while, when traversing the paper It
self, the current is broken, the paper bein
d non-couductor. At the receiving STATIC
4 paper chemically prepared, and OF yer.
sensitive nature, is used, so that the lcas
current transmitted will, by decomposin
the elements used in preparing the paper
have traced upon it in bold, black charac
teGs an exact fac simile of the character
| nnr{nrat ted ~ the TIN u Shifting station :"