Daily globe., 1879-03-30
BONNER UND BLITZEN!

agyitI. the Hid of Which. an Electrician. Hae
Discovered that One Can Trasesneit HIS
'O,c,s ,ssaRand,vriting Hundreds of Miles--
A~toG~@phic Telegrapsy.
cincinnati Enquirer.]
At thesEast meeting Of the Electrical So
'ciety of the Ohio Valley, held at their rooms
lie this city on the evening, of March 19, Mr..
James w. See presented q detailed descrip-
ton, illustrated by photographs, Of his new
autographic telegraphing system, which he
terms the electro pantograph. MI See has
had his European specification in London
over two years, and as the public ,..resenta-
tion of the subject before the above named
society, of~which he is member, was the
direct result of an article appearing in our
colamns some days ago, to the eHeat that a
similar system was soon to ste made public
in London, we have felt called upon to 90
over the papers read before the Electrical
society, and digest it for the benefit ,of our
readers.
By means of this system ore may walk in
to a telegraph Office, pick up a lead pencil,
stick its point through hole in the end of
a pointed rod attached to the Instrument,
and write hismessage, or letter, or check, or
note of hand, an any language, s 1ort- hand or
long hand, good writing Or bad, and as he
does sc similar pencil at station hundreds
of miles away follows every movement, and
this pencil ceincidently produces perfect
duplicate of the authors writing. This affair
opens up fine questions as to what corsti-
tutes legal note of hand. There can be no
doubt but what such note is actually writ
ten by the makes. No intermediate process
intervenes between the maker and the dis
tanS note, and the law does not say how lerp
or how short a pencil must be, or whether It
is to be made of wood and black lead or of
wire and batteries and retor1s and electro
magnets and mechanism.
Mr.. Sees system is based on the theory.
fully demonstrated in his paper. that lines,
no matter how complex they may be, pos
sess but two essential elements: direction
and length: and that there are but four fun;
dadnental directions; and that all possible
directions are formed by combination of!
e<xo of the fundamental directions. The
fundamental dlrectionsare down. left, right
and up. The effect of combination of two
directions is fully defined by the well-known
philosophical laws of resultant forces, the
fundamental elements of ell lines being the
components.
The instrument consists of four keys
closing four electric circuits. The keys are
opened by the rotation of toothed pinions,
and the pinions are rotated by toothed racks
havng ba pencil artonatsd rods ,a attached
ture of these rods. A movement of tho
pencil in one direction will affect a
series of breaks in one circuit and not affect
the other three. The number of breaks is in
proportion to the length Of the line. If the
pencil Is moved in curve il will result in a
series OF breaks in two circuits, and the rela-
tive number of breaks will depend on the re-
lation between the two component directions
OF the curved line. The receiving features
OF the instrument are similar to the aor-
tlons just described, save that, instead Of
rotating pinions breaking circuit, breaks in
ehe circuit are caused to rotate the pinions.
This is accomplished by means of four
electro magnets, whose armatures at each