Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-25
MIR. EDISON'S BARGAIN.
The Western Union Company tn
Pay 100000 to- Apply his
Electro NIOtOgraph.


Pay 100000 to- Apply his
Electro photograph.
During long series Of experiments
made some time ago with dampened
chalk as conductor, In connection
with the motophone, an attachment
and adjunct 10 the telephone, Mr.. Edi-
son discovered that the same principle
could be applied successfully to the pro.
duCtiOn OF a mechanical movement az a
distance. Upon this principle he con-
strueted his electromagnetic. Up 10
that time there had been but one meth.
OF by which thiscould be accomplished.
This method was first applied by man
named Page, and the validity of his pat
ents, after a long and costly controversy
in the courts, was recently established
by decision OF Judge Blatchiord. The
Western Union Telegraph Company,
being the assignee OF Mr.. Pages widow,
were thus sustained in their claim to the
only means OF transmitting mechanical
motion to distance.
Fearing that Edison during his con-
slant and untiring experimentation,
bac Ied by genius some day strike upon
a second means OF transmitting meChan-
zeal motion to "A distance, and thus fur
niSh rival companies with a means OF
successful competition, the Western I'm
ton Company made a contract with Ed
isOn 10y which they were to be allowed
to make the first bid upon all electrical
IuyenuOns. They agreed To pay him
$1,000 year for this privilege. Some
weeks ago, however, when the nature
OF his new invention was learned by
that company, they called upon him to
name his terms Mr.. Edison promptly
named $1,000. This was thought to be
too high figure, and Mr. Edison aud
the company named an arbitrator TO adj
Just the difference.
While these were endeavoring to come
% an understanding, agents of the rival
company the American Union Teio'
graph COmpany-Opened negotiations
with Mr.. Edison. A possession OF this
invention would have enabled the latter
company To- operate their wires without
in any way infringing upon the Page
patents, claimed by the Western Union.
This hastened matters, and without
more ado the Western Union Company
agreed, on Saturday last, To- the terms
originally asked hy Mr.. Edison, namely,
100000 cash
BY this purchase they do not acquire
a right to the electromagnetic princi-
pie "a has been stated, but only tn tse
application OF that principle Of telegIa-
phy. That il to say, ii the decision OF
Judge Blatchiord in the Page patent
M l nj.
Company will hold the only two means
ui producing mechanical motion at Il
distance, and will thus have complete
control vi all means Of Geographic
communication IN this country.
The result Of this new application OF
the electrO-mntOgraph To the telegraph
purposes opens up q new system Oi tel
Cgraphy by electricity entirely outside
and distinct from the Page patents. MIR.
Eiison's theory is that the friction gen
Grated between two bodies IN motion Is
diminished and, in some cases, even en-
tlrrly eliminated, through the agency ol
electricity. When a current OF electric
,ty is passed from the metallic point
through piece OF chalk chemically pre-
pared. and thus rendered conductor
81 electricity, the friction normally cX-
Istiug between the metallic point and the
prepared chalk is eliminated, and the
result is that the metallic point ghdes
over the chalk surface without resist
aucc. The moment the current - shut
oh the normal friction IL at once per
criycd. From this it will tie seen that
by the Use ui current OF electricity and
4 II. II. l1ysV 81
which rests metallic point conveying
the electricity To it, a mechanical move
ncut = produced a. distance. THIS
principle Mr.. Edison succeeded IN ap-
PLYING, after many experiments, To the
production oi receiving telephone
which il now extensively used IN Eu-
rnpr. ID il known as the chemical, or
.rIrrtrp-motOgraph telephone. Ii IN not
used i'm this country because OF con
tracts with other telephone comPan-
les
The rlcctro-motograph principle Edi-
son has found applicable to many Things,
and II Is said that 1t presents as wife
field To the production OF now telegraph
IT, Inventions ~ does electromagnetic.
Although MIR. Edison has been aware oi
the powers Of the eleCtrO-mOtOgraph
for some time and ITS value as a trans
utittrr Of mechanical motion, 1t was not
until very recent period that he APP,
piled himself To the construction aud
perfection of machine by which tele..
graphing can be carried on by the use OF
the electro photograph principle equally
a. we'll as by the use OF electromagnetic
ism.