Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-14
ANOTHER TRIUMPH.
Telegraphy RevOlutionized ana 'ne
% Telephone Supplanted'


TeIegraphy Revolutionized and th'
Telephone supplanted'
A new application of electric science
has been made here that promises to &C
far toward revolutionizing telegraphy ano
supplanting the telephone in popular
favor, 1t is nothing less than the dlscov
ery of means by which anybody capable
of manipulating an ordinary type-wrltlng
machine may, with equal ease, rapidity
and precision, send and receive messages
over a Geographic wire. Should this In
yention should do all that is claimed for
if. and, indeed, that it seems fully capa-
bic of. there seems to be no good reason
WHY the places of expert Morse telegraph
ers may not be filed everywhere by girls,
clerks, expressmen, station agents and
other non-experts, SO at once reducing
greatly to the public the cost of telegraphy
and increasing facilities by the establish
ment of at least 10000 new telegraph
! offices throughout the country in places
where they have not heretofore been.
For reasons best known to the company
controlling this most important invention
its operations have until now been kept a
secret. The Office and operating rooms
have been carefully guarded against re-
porters, and the men interested have been
as c1ose-mouthed as if it had been polit-
ical mystery instead of step in progress
i've science that they were concealing.
However, the writer found means to be
present at series of exceedingly inter-
esting tests of the practicability of the
new system, which constituted an en-
tirely private exhibition.
The distinguishing features of the new
system, are the entirely novel transmit
ter and receiver employed. Those two
instruments, although put near together
here upon table, have between them
about hundred miles of ordinary tele-
graph wire coiled about the room,
through which their connection is made.
In point of fact the transmitter and the
receiver are exactly alike, the same
machine serving for either use as re-
quired. Its front is almost the same as
the keyboard of a. caligraph or type
writer, the letters of the alphabet and the
numerals are in high relief, Behind this
is avertieal column, around which blank
paper is placed, and by simple mechani-
cal device moved up line by line as de-
sired. The paper almost touches the
lettered face to the wheel A small ink
ing roller governed by spring supplies
color to the lettered wheel Inside the
column is a'small hammer that strikes
the paper against whatever letter may be
directly before it and so prints it upon
the surface of the paper. All that seems
simple enough. 20 .l.
The mystery is below, in the intricate
and delicate electrical attachments by
which variously graduated currents are
led over the thirty-eight or forty wires
from the keys to the printing apparatus,
and at the same time to a connected in
taneousl y and with perfect accuracy on
every key that is struck. The wire con-
Meeting the instrument is single, but
those graduated currents not only pass
along it without confusion, but even
meet in opposite directions at the same
time. This was fully demonstrated in
the tests. The touching of key in
stantly produced letter upon the paper
of both instruments, and letter after
letter followed as. rapidly as a .skillful
typewriter operator could touch the KEYS
until many messages had been ex-
changed. 1t was observed that the
wheels, when retrogression in the order
OF the alphabet was necessitated, whirled
clear back to fixed point each time, as
the wheel of a "gold and stock indicator"
instrument does, but it moved with much |
greater rapidity and so little affected |
transmission that forty to fifty words per
minute were easily sent by person who |
was not at all an expert, and received au-
tomatically at the other end of the line !
without errors .-. ..'t.s .t'- t-:,
One OF the gentlemen connected with /
the new enterprise-one, by the wav, of !
high standing as practical electrician
SAID concerning the novel invention: !
" The distinctive advantages claimed by
this system over all other telegraphic.
telephone and typewriting instruments
are IN Its simple and inexpensive con-
struction and the ease of operating it.
Any person who can read can transmit
and receive messages through it as cor
rectly as could the most experienced ex-
pert using the Morse instrument. It is
as rapid as it is accurate, and all mes
sages by it being automatically printed,
both at the point of transmission and |
that of reception, they can be received
with safety and reliability in the absence
as well as to the presence of the recipient.
The recording at both points preclude
all questions of error in transmits
sion. It'cannot be read by sound, and is
the only method for pre-
serving privacy in electrical communica-
ion. 1t is at once a stock Indicator. tele-
phone and type-printing telegraph. For
'allroad and express companies, bankers.
brokers'; merchants, and all commercial
'urposes-it being adjustable to any 1sys-5
EN- OF wire communication and capable
II working with ANY number of tribut-
'rles-it is of inestimable value. 1t is
lot a verbal telephone, but will supersede
hat instrument by silently and RAPIDLY
ecordlng all messages upon paper. There
re no formidable complications in it's
obstruction, and it is regarded hu e,,nnrt :