The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-21
ANEW TELEGRAPH MACHINE.
Royal r.. Houses Automatic instru-
ment for Transmitting $50
words in u Minute.

Royal T. House, the last of the original
OF the Morse time thirty years
ago, proposes to rovolutionize telegraphy,
and may do il before no dies. lie is an old
man, although the youngest of the leaders
in tho days when "far writing" which has
become a fact, was regarded as myth. lie
has perfected system by which from $50
to 800 words minute can be transmitted,
received and permanently recorded, and
which il automatic. lie is tho only man
who ever won Il patent suit against the
present great telegraph monopoly, to which
he afterwards indirectly sold his patents,
which have become part of the Morse sys-
TEN. The new designs are tho perfection
Of tho old House ivorykeyed, automatic
Instrument Of thirty years ago, and arc the
result OF twelve years of unremitting labor
la sentence, 1t is intended TO make cams,
cogs, levers and electricity do the work Of
brains, hands and experience, to send meg
sages with tho enormous rapidly of me-
automatically and without necessary pres.
ence of an operator, to make money for the
capitalized companies and to save it 10 ind
viduals. If successful, 1t is the cheap postal
telegraph system in anutsheil. The inventor
calculates -and figures seldom lie--tbat mes
sages can be sent by the new system at some
thing less than one-tenth OF their cost by the
present improved Morse system, allowing for
power, machinery, batteries, paper and the
salaries of operators and other employees.
Mr.. House, whose home is in Bingham on
was found to-day in house in Brooklyn.
He has taken out more patents even than
Edison, and one of them has the prestige of
1863 specif cations, which leaves 'the Wizard
entirely out in tho cold on matters of detail.
In the pleasant front parlor of y second.stoTy
house there were four machines, or
Instruments which constitute the system,
Each one of them would bo useless without
the other. The first is built on tho general
principle Of tho typo.writing machine, but
instead of printing characters cuts Sits Of
greater or less length in IN interminaole strip
or hard and stiff Manila paper, with pointed
knives, which are raised alternately through
the lower and upper edges of the paper by
u system of levers worked by series of bress
keys, the strip of paper passing from wheel
through n narrow brass galley and under
constant pressure over the little sorts
through which the knives work. Foot,
| hand water or steam power may be used in
running the machine, and an expert opera
tor can strike from 100 to 200 letters per
minute. The length Of thu slit indicates the
letter to small fraction of an inch.
Vhi. Grim Of Donnf whDgn MARIO arn not
those of punch bat cut Sits in u rapidly
moving strip, is then placed in machine
connected with battery, and moves quickly
through it. Two constantly revolving
wheels, with sharp but not keen edges, fall
rapidly into tho slits-upper and lower al
ternately-of the paper, and thereby make
an electrical connection with the receiving
instrul ent at another office, with a set of
knives smilar 10 those In which tho original
slip is placed. The knives in the second
machine cuts Sits Of length correspond.
ing TO those in the original, and can be read
by an expert, although they can be printed
in the fourth machine with such rapidity as
to make handwriting comparatively tedious
and useless, This last instrument points on
somewhat the same principle as tho gold and
stock automatic telegraph, but the letters arc
printed from the cut slip without any other
interference than that of the power by which
the machine is run.
These messages record themselves, and the
presence or absence ofan operator At the re-
ceiving end is of no consequence They can
be sent with all the rapidly of which perfect
mechanism is capable, and will it is claimed
average 200 to $50 words per minute, or APP
plOxlmate $4,000 words per hour of constant
wars. All delay will be in the preparing in
struments, and the work then can be accom-
plished by operators at such times as the
wires are occupied hom other stations.
Perhaps tho most remarkable feature of
the system, and the one which will strike
operators and electricians as the most I'M
probable, is the simplest. 1t is that all meg
sages can be sent 10 any particular station
and TO no other, and without being heard or
repeated al any other. The "call'' is so ar.
ranged in its automatic way that while the
machinery is in movement in every office, the
knlc-like wheel only Ills the call Sits on the
tape in the office for which it is intended
giving an automatic reply, and the similarly
moving wheels in every other office, FILLING
TO fit the Sits, have no impression