The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1886-05-10

A Device that Promises tO Leave the
hell Patents Out in the Cold.
Pittsburgh Dspatch.l

Messrs. James H. Robertson and w.
+. Gump, representing syndicate OF
New York capitalists owning and con.
trolling all the patents covering the sys-
TEN OF Telephone writing" are in the
city and registered at the Hotel Ander-
son. They met the directors Of the old
Western Pennsylvania Telephone Com
pany yesterday afternoon, and a nun. ber
of highly interesting tests Of the writing
system were shown. The experiments
were conducted from the central tele-
phone exchange of the company where
Mr.. Gump set up one of his instruments.
Another was taken to another part of the
city nearly two miles distant, and a
number of messages sent and received.
The method is simple in its operation.
A person desiring to send a message
writes the number on a slip of paper.
like the ticker slip in brokers' office.
This is instantly reproduced at the Gen.
trail Office. where the sender is at once
connected with the station wanted, the
same az with . telephone. The sender
then writes his message out on slip, the
writing being reproduced at the other
eud OF the line in exact fac c-simile. The
reproduction is instantaneous. The mer.
its claimed for the system are the saving
in time, the perfect freedom from mis-.
takes. . record OF the message, and last,
but not least, the cheapness of tae in
struments, which Mr.. Gump claims can
be put in at cost not exceeding s..
saving of 81 per INSTRUMENT in this city.
The mechanical aud electrical appliances
of the machine are iuclosed in . box
about ak inches square, the surface of
the box being used as writing table.
The whole is surmounted on an inclosed
stand, in which is part of the clock work
| mechanism which feeds the writing tape
under the pen. There is a hole in the
| surface about an inch square Immediately
10 front OF the tape, through which pro-
trudes a magnetic point, to which the
point of the pencil is joined. Ia writing.
| the operator simply makes the motion of
| forming a letter, the exact motion being
reproduced in ink not only on the tape,
by means of an arm extending up from
the rear Of and over the tape, out also to
! the instrument at the other end Of the
| telegraph wire, where the message writ
ten is produced. The instrument, with
several other telephone and telegraph
| appliances, is the invention of Mr.. Rob
ertsop, and was made three years ago.
| The gentleman has ever since been en-
| gaged in various improvements and mod
| ifcations, which have been completed,
and the patent issued only a few weeks
ago. Pittsburgh is the second city in
which the system has been tested, the
other being New York, where the com
! pany operating it is Incorporated as the
Whiting Telegraph Company The com
pany propose to establish exchanges in
| all the cities OF the United States. They
have made proposition to the Telegraph
and Telephone Company of this city,
which is being considered seriously by
that company. From here wires will at
once be put in operation to Cleveland
and New York, with relays to all inter-
venng cities and towns. K. G. Nc.
! Gonigle, of the Pittsburgh Light Com
pany, and one OF the directors of the
telephone company, when asked about
the matter last night, said "Fhe tests
given yesterday were highly satisfactory,
aud the proposition made by Messrs.
Gnmp and Robertson is under considera"
tion. What the result will be can not
say at present" Further tests will be
given to day for the satisfaction OF direct
ors who could not be present yesterday.