Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-23
MACHINE TGlEGRAP1s.
ASTONISHING Inventions Recently Made H.,
an p1u Newspaper Man.

astonishing Inventions Recently Made 10y
an oid Newspaper Man.
Mr. u. II. Craig. formerly manager
of the Associated Press. has devoted
nineteen years To the development OF
machine biography. and claims 30 be
able 10 telegraph two thousand words
per minute from each end of wire
Total four thousand words in sixty
seconds.
The messages or reports are legibly
and uniformly recorded in ordinary
telegraph characters. which can be
read by clerks familiar with them at
the rate of about one hundred words
per minute.
Messages. to be sent over the Morse
lines, must first be written or printod:
but message 10 be telegraphed by
the new system must first be perfor-
ated, for which Mr. Craig has IA
beautiful little machine. SXl0 inches,
with two banks of keys, called
composer. which even child can
operate reliably and quite expertly
after an hours practice. and after a
reasonable amount OF practice fifteen
to thirty words per minute can be por-
forated. simultaneously with the per-
foratioEs the machine prints in plain
Roman. every word Of the message,
which is retained. while the perforated
message is sent TO the telegraph Office
the same As Il mes age is sent in
manuscript to be telegraphcd over the
Morse line, with this difference the
machine message will be transmitted
to destination at the rate of one thou
sand or two thousand words per minute,
and be legibly and accurately recorded
in telegraph characters, and the Morse
message will be telegraphed by the
hand-key system at the rate of fifteen
to twenty-five words per minute and be
recorded by Sound reading in ordi-
nary manuscript. 1t is claimed that
the machine record il three times
more accurate than sound recording.
With the regular Office porforatot
experts do. reliably, fifty words per
minute, or 5000 per hour; and it is
claimed by Mr.. Craig that tho actual
cost OF transmitting 1000 words 1000
miles Is not over cents!
The cost of paper to pcrforate 1000
words Is | cent, and cents for record
ing paper. Experts. young men or
young ladies'. do perforating for 10
cents per 1000 words, and the same
for copying on the Typewriter total
- cents for completing 900 words
On this basis it would cost for Labor
and paper less than $50 to telegraph
and complete forty-eight columns of
this newspaper from New York to
Chicago,
Mr.. Craig has also devised a new
telegraph wire, made of pure copper
with slight mixturt of silica. which
is s&i,s 10 increase the tensile strength
TO TWICE the strength of steel of equal
size the exact tensile strength being
reported as $4,000 pounds to the
square inch.
No. J qauge wire Weighs over 900
pounds ner me, aud has about one
ohm of electrical resistance per mile. !
With such II wire, extending from
New ! ork to San Francisco. the cleo !
trical resistance would be about 3. 900 |
ohms, Wine a majority of the tele-
graph wires ostween New York and |
Washington snow AN electrical resist
ance Of more than 1000 ohms--thus |
the new siliconized copper wire will
bring san Francisco nearer to New
York electrically, than New York is
to Washington. ~. i. SIN.