Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-02
PRINTING BY LIaHTNIEG.

PRINTING BIZ LIGHTNING.
Copttan Lin@sey's Ne,D Inrcntion De-
scnbed--tse most WondcrfM thing
yet thought ot--Aorse left IN the
| Shade.
What has long been desired and anx-
iously sought has at last been found
that is o printing telegraph Of easy
practical operation. 1t will print by
telegraph four times as fast as the
| Morse system can transmit messages.
/ The new instrument when adapted to
four lines of wire can send the Presi-
dents message and deliver it printed
IN San Francisco, in half an hour.
The invention belongs to Captain Lind
| sey, OF jackson. His operating model,
upon which the patent was issued, is
now in the Patent Office in Washing
ton. What think you of system Of
keys arranged in horizontal lines be-
tore the operators, much in the same
style that the. keys of a piano are ar
ranged before the player, each KEY re-
presenting the letter upon which the
expert telegraphist plays, producing,
not sweet sounds, bnt printed sheets
three thousand miles away. Captain
Lindsey has succeeded in producing 4
revolution in telcgraphy. His inven-
] ton makes every printer at once the
mos; expert OF operators. His system
OF keys may be arranged after the
mode of printers case, in which the
letters are arranged according 10 their
Importance, those most commonly used
being more convenient to the hand or
the artist, and those least used being
more remote. The invention. in fact.
admits of the producing of counter
part or the prin,er's case. The types
not being liable to run ont, and the
operator never having 70 complain -
want of sorts" one character of each
kind being sufficient to last an age
The operator can touch those charac-
tiers as fast as he may, and a CORES
pondlng impression is made upon the |
rapidly uncoiling slips of paper al the |
other end Of the line. A rapid printer
can " distribute nearly column of
type in an hour, and consequently he
could operate on the new intrument
that fast, and even faster, for with the
Geographic instrument he would have
no "spaces" to deal with. and very
:, o.nei liiarAs. ~ Wlil be quite plain
~ .sers PRIMER and newspaper man.
.h ,"' "nsh .ile aiphaoet Is arranged IN
no Iiue. iian'ed, ana mas merely to be
u1ae 20 =, " make marx at the other
u nmu ~ 'ne me- inefe can hardly be
...' " .lie quaiiilty OF matter which
may be transmitted, and the rapidly
70 4 ~, 20 usserniihea py ihe expertness
yUh op ~,
vii, IL. .''S ..essase IS received there
,,,at;asu.' a aa, u'es' ior " comes AUTO
wh;ni, ~, ~. oi priatcu SIP,
ana 49,, .om ~. iase,. iIo.h Y foiier,
across "Aon ~. mug icnsths ana pastea
Paso VI paper, VIII READ
ne Pr1n ting Telegr aph
isagre success We
snr i ~ :, : -
80. : : " vi - vi = q a u q W ORD
per no ur, printed on slips.
The average number Of electrical
impulses it takes TO mako . iatta,. =
four. Consequently four ticl,e mr.
strokes ofth Morse instrument RI ~
the representation of an alnhahatical
character. Even with this glow ara
clumsy way OF transmitting snaec,, tbo
wire w Ill SEND news on tnsf ono
good writer can write It down on
manifold paper. TO make electricity
thus speak ont the thoughts of man
hundreds even thousands of m;las
away, over sandy wastes. lofty nrd
barren mountains. ridges. and tlrough
the dark depths of the ocean. wos n
great and marvellous triumph of mind
over matter. No philosopher. howey-
or. regarded that as the ultimate result
OF human effort in that direction. Tho
possibility Of the future would ba con-
si,lered madness to Tie people of tho
past. not only in trlerrapbinu hut in
printing. The Walter press rims off
rolls OF paper, at tho rate often or
twelve miles an hour, printing. cut
ting. counting, and folding them al The !
other cad faster than any tongue can
count. We shall see rolls Of paner /
thus run OF and printed BY telegraph !
II we are lrcky enough to live another I
quarter OF century.
Inc COZ OF pia1i paper upon which /
me ctiafac'efs are impressed, Is arrang