Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-20
ASTONISHING INVENTION.
Threatens to Supersede Both the
Morse System and the Telephone.

Morse System and the Telephone.
PHILADELPHIA. PA, April 6.-An
invention has recently been perfected
here that bids fair to revolutionize ali
| existing systems OF electrical commu.
nication, both in telegraphic and tele-
| phonic. The secret of 10 has been
carefully guarded by the inventors,
Messrs. George M. Hathaway and
James III. Linville, and by the small
company OF large capitalists who con.
troll IL while IL was being fully covered
| by patents, both American aud for
eigD. Now that all Is secure, 1t Is
TO be suddenly sprung upon the public
by an exhibition at the Continental
hotel, probably during the present
week, as one OF the gigantic scientific
surprises of the century. To state In
brief what 1t Is, IL Ia nothing LEGS than
making telegraphy as simple, rapid
and easily within the command OF
everybody ne il the operating Of the
csligraph or typewriter. Eaeeting
what Ii claimed for It, II will be the
means OF greatly reducing the cost OF
telegraphy, of enabling the opening OF
some 40, 900 new telegraph stations In
railroad and express offices throughout
the United States where there have
| hitherto been none and of taking the
place generally of the telephone, Any
person who can pick out q word on
the keys OF a typewriter can trans.
nit message by the Hathaway sys.
| tenn accurately and with rapidly,
only restricted by thespeed ofthe pick
Ing, while,as for receiving messages, the
instrument does that automatically,
whether there is anybody superintend.
/ I'm ~ tn ns.aratfnng ~ ~
private exhibition of the system to.
day at the company's offices, No. 1927
! Walnut street, the results attained at
which seemed to fully sustain all that
Ia claimed for this most remarkable
| invention.
The instrument used is both trans
mitter and receiver. The two instru.
ments used in this exhibition were
connected by about one hundred miles
| of wire coiled about the offices. Each
| appeared in Its front part to he simply
an ordinary typewriter, with the let
tere, numerals, etc, on raised keys.
Behind this rises small column, with
blank paper wrapped around II, and
moved up line by line IA required by
a simple device. Inside that column
Is small hammer that strikes out
wardly, 80 az to, whenever key Is
touched, press the paper against the
periphery of horizontal wheel that
lies between the keyboard and the
column. On that periphery, In high
relief, are the letters of the alphabet,
numerals and points for punctuation.
The wheel spins around with lightn-
ing-like rapidity rs the keys are sue
cessiveIy touched by an expert When |
IL has to retrocede In the alphabetical
erder 1t flies back to a fixed point, as
does the wheel OF a gold and stock in
dictator, but much more swiftly. |
All the delicate and intricate |
electrical attachments necessary |
are below, and when understood, are
much less complicated than they
seem, their apparent complication be-
ing caused by their multiplicity. A
separate wire leads from each KEY 10
a single common wire, and each OF
those key-connected wires serves
for transmission or receptian of mes.
sages. The sending or receiving par.
tlcular letter or figure is governed by
the strength OF current required for
lust that individual one, and for no
other. IL seems very strange that all
those various impulses should be
flashed along d wire-even In opposite
directions AT the same without
jostling each other or getting mixed
up, but they do. Many messages were
sent and received In to-day's test by
non-experts at speed OF from forty
to fifty words per minute with greater
accuracy than 10 usually shown by
expert Morse Sound" operators, and
that speed, II WAS affirmed, could be
very greatly increased. A noticeable
and valuable feature OF the system is
that It prints clearly In the sight Of
the person transmitting q message just
what Is being sent 10 the receiver, 10
that errors are avoided, or, II they are
committed, are readily corrected. The
messages sent over wire by this In
strument can not be read by sound, 30
that 1t Is much more favorable 10 the
privacy often desirable Ia business
than either the Morse system or the
telephone. Inasmuch as the Hatha-
way instrument can be adjusted 10
any system OF wire communication
and will work TO ~ great distances as
Ii required In telegraphy, II will be OF
inestlmAble value 10 railroad and ex-
press companies, bankers, brokers,
merchants and the general public
There are no formidable complications
In its construction, and expert cleo.
friciRne who have examined 10 pro-
nounce IL one OF the most wonderful
achievements Of the age Should II
only do half what is claimed for II,
and that II shows II can do, II would
practically revo!utionize telegraphy,
The company controlling this great
invention has been organized upon a
capital OF $1,000, 900, but no stock IL
for sale, all being held US an invest
ment. The officers are President,
Thomas Cochran, president Guarantee