Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-09-24

IN such emergencies at plttance ol
| $50 or $50
THE RAPIDS" LEVER OF POWER.
1t appears that the rapid company
| style their system of telegraphy a new
one only because late inventions and
discoveries have perfected its use for
business purposes yet some of the
important patents and devices from
which such surprising results are OBJ
tanned have been the subjects of close
study, great elaboration and large ex-
penditures of money for the past eight
years or more, and however startling
and improbable may seem the state
ments of the capabilities of machine
telcgraphv, they claim to have fully
demonstrated them on long telegraph
circuits of three hundred, five hundred
and one thousand miles and for a
period of time exceeding four months
without a single failure of the dis
covery of single material fault.
They therefore propose to enter the
broad, rich telegraphic field, conf
IDENTIFY expecting that if they serve
the public and the press well and
cheaply they will respond with a
greatly increased volume of business.
The company controls, under strong
American and European patents:
l. "Electro-mechanical telegraphy," !"
which has been explained
3. "Real duplex telegraphy," by
which one wire is made precisely as
effective as and even more. convenient
than two wires can be in the hands of
expert Morse operators. This sys-
tenn is divested of all the complica-
tions of other duplex" devices and
admits of sending and receiving mes
sages simultaneously from either end
of wire or to and from ony interme-
date or way Offices, which they claim
cannot be done by any other known
duplex" or "quadruplex" system.
This real duplex" system, they also
claim, is especially well adapted to
railroad telegraphing and for use on
all way lines where the volume of
business does not require faster sys-
TEN of telegraphing than the Morse,
but yet where the exigencies of the
business require the use, substantially,
of two wires.
s. Multiplex telegraphy, which is
substantially the transmission from
each end of a single wire, in any cir
cult of 1000 miles, of four messages
from both ends simultaneously
thus practically duplexing the "quad-
ruplex" system, but by vastly more
simple devices-devices, indeed, they
claim even more simple and much
more ''hexible" than are required to
operate the ordinary duplex" system.
4. "Metrical Telegraphy."-A new
system for working long ocean cables
and underground telegraph lines,
whereby the wires are discharged of
all inductive and static electricity and
placed in condition to carry electric
impulses with twenty fold greater
rapidity than heretofore, and to in
crease the hourly transmission over
any good Atlantic cable of from 1000
words to probably 10000, or proba
bly, more, per hour. By the metrical
system every possible electrical signal
indicates reliably a Roman letter in
print, thus saving of electric signals at
least three-fourths, as compared with
any other known system of cable tele-
graphing.
5. Line and page printing telegraph
machine.-This they claim as very
ingenious and valuable invention, re-
quiring but one battery to operate at
both ends Of wire, thereby, with
other important improvements, plac-
ing the printing telegraph far above
every other known device for commu
nicating intelligence where high speed
is not necessary and where some con-
venient method of recording is desira-
BILE or necessary, as it is in every busi-
ness communication. The recording
is done very neatly in lines and pages,
book form, which makes it incompara-
bly, superior to all other machines for
reporting stocks, for private line pur-
poses and inter-communicating uses,
a record for convenient reference being
very great if not necessary desi-
deratum among business men.
6. The Electric Generating Machine.
BY means of this new invention
every telegraph Office may, at tri-
fling expense, be fitted as main Office,
and may send all messages within
circuit of 1000 or 1900 miles direct
to destination. This is an aid to the
new machine telegraphy" of incalcu-
liable value and Importance, as it does
away with all necessity for ''relaying"
or "reperforating" messages, and saves
in battery expenses many thousands
of dollars per month. The new prin-
ciples involved in this Mechanical
Electric Generator admit of the instant
generation of all the quantity" and
all the intensity of current required
for circuits of 1000 to 1900 miles or
less, and practically, more than dou-
bles the value of the rapid" system
of machine telegraphy.
I. Speaking Telephone.-This tele-
phone is constructed on novel princi-
pies, and repeats language with great
distinctness in ordinary Morse tele-
graph circuits of 800 miles.
8. Telegraphlc Devices and Patents.
Besides the above named seven val
liable inventions, and also exclusive of
several very broad ones covering the
manufacture of compound" steel and
copper wire, whereby telegraph wires
may be had of any desired electrical
conductivity and tensile strength COM
bined, the Rapid Company control a
large number of other valuable devices
and patents connected with telegraphy
and embracing really about all the
inventions of practical merit in this
branch of science during the past
quarter of century and as it is and
will continue to be a leading feature
of the company's organization to ex-
tend the most liberal encouragement
to all inventors who may invent orig
inal devices of decided merit, or who