Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-17
PRINTING BY LIGHTNING.
Captain Lindsey's New Invenff0D Ne.
scfibed-The Meat wonderful Thing
Yet Thought of-Morse Left
In the Shade.

The average number of electrical
impulses il takes to make letter is four.
Consequently, four ticks or strokes of the
Morse instrument go to the representa-
ton of an alphabetical character Even
with this slow and clumsy way of trans
hitting speech, the wire will send news
/ on as fast as a good writer can note il
down upon manifold paper. To make
electricity thus instantly speak out
the thoughts of men, hundreds and
even thousands Ofmiles away over sandy
wastes, lofty and barren mountain
ridges, and through the dark depths of
the ocean, was a great and
marvellous triumph of intellect
over matter. No philosopher, however
regarded that as the ultimate result of
human effort in that direction. The
possibility of the future would be con-
sidered madness to the people of the
past, not only in telegraphing but 10
printing. The Walter press runs of
rolls OF paper at the rate of ten or twelve
miles per hour, printing cutting, counting
and folding the sheets, delivering them at
the other side faster than any tongue
can count. We shall see rolls of paper
thus run off and printed by telegraph, if
We are lucky enough to live another
quarter of a century.
What has long been desired and
anxiously sought, hsa at last been found
that is, printing telegraph of easy
practical operation. It will print
by telegraph four times as fast
as the Morse system can trans
NIT messages. The new instrument
when adapted to four lines Of wire can
take the Presidents message and de-
liver ii, printed, in San Francisco in
half an hour! The invention belongs to
Captain Lindsey, of jackson. His oper-
ating model upon which the patent was
issued is now in the Patent Office at
Washington. What think you Of a sys-
tenn Of keys arranged in horizontal
lines before the operators much in the
same style that the KEYS of piano are
before the player, each KEY
representing letter upon which the ex |
pert telegraphist plays, producing, not |
sweet sounds, but printed sheets three
t ousand miles away? Captain Lind |
sey has succeededin producing a revolu-
ton in telegraphy. His invention |
makes every printer at once the most /
expert of operators. His system of keys |
may be arranged after the mode of o /
printers case, in which the letters are
arranged according to their Importance,
hose most commonly used being more L
to the hand of the artist, and /
hose least used being more remote. The
invention, in fact, admits of the produc-
ion Of counterpart of the printers
;ase. The types not being liable to run
lutr and the operator never having to
complain of ''Want of sorts,n one char !
scter Of each kind being sufficient to
asst an age. The operator can touch
hose characters as fast as he may, and
/ corresponding impression is made
lpon the rapidly uHcOiling slips Of paper
It the other end of the line. A rapid
printer can "distribUten nearly column
# type in an hour, consequently
le could operate on the new instru-
nent that fast, and even faster,
or with the Geographic instrument he
would have. no "spaces" to deal with,
nd very few other marks. 1t will be
uite plain to every printer and newspa-
er man, that when the alphabet is ar
anged in the order named, and has
merely to be touched to make a mark at
the other end of the line" there can
ardly be limit to the quantity of mat
Pr which may be transmitted, and the
apidity will be dermined by the expert
ess of the operator.
When the message is received there
ill be no difficulty, for it comes auto
forth on printed slip, which
ncOils itself from a roller, and I
hen cut into lengths and pasted
cross a page of paper, will read