The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-04-06
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company, OF Wnlcn Icherai L. III
Logan is president. All Of those
who inspect the tclautograph went
away satisfied that they had seen an
invention which will rank, as mar
vel, with the telegraph, the telephone,
the cable, the electric light and the
phonograph. Whether it will have
as wide an application as the the tel
Eephonc remains to be seen. This
will depend largely upon the liability
of the machines to get out Of order,
and upon whether the public, after
trial of both methods, would finally
decide that it is better to write than
to speak their messages. The te-
laughtograph, however. is not neces-
sarily rival of the telephone. There
is large use for both machines. 1t
would seem, however, to make the
Morse alphabet useless. The talauto-
graph is writing telegraph. ~
man sits down at his desk in New
York and writes message to a friend
in Philadelphia. The latter receives
the message in an fac similc of the
handwriting Of the sender. This OPP
Grafton requires no skilled labor.
Anyone who can write can send
message, and, provided there is an
electric wire connecting them and two
transmitters and receivers, two per-
sons can carry on correspondence,
though thousands of miles a part,
and every stroke of the pen will bc
exactly and instantaneously repro
duced over that distance. The
structure of these Instruments seem
to be remarkably simple. In the
tranSmittcr and ordinary lead pencil
is used, near the point of which two
silk cords are fastened at right angles
to each other These cords connect
with the instrument, and, following
the motions of the pencil, regulate
the current impulses which control
the receiving pen at the distant sta
ton. The writing is done on ordi-
nary paper-fve inches widc--con-
venicntly arranged on roll attached
to the machine. \ lever at the left
is so moved by the hand as to shift
the paper forward mechanically at
the transmitter and electrically at the
receiver The receiving pen is
capillary glass tube placed at the
junction of two aluminium arms.
This glass pen is supplied with ink
which flows from q reservoir, through
small rubber tube placed in one of
these arms. The electrical impulses,
coming over the wire, move the
pen of the receiver simultaneously
with the movements Of the pencil in
the hand of the sender. AS the pen
passes over the paper an ink tracing
is left which is always a fac simile
of the sendcr's motions, whether in
the formation of letters, words, fig
ures, signs or sketches. 1t follows
therefore, that every movement OF
the sender is produced by the rccciv-
ing instrument, 80 it is just as easy
to send q free handed portrait or 9TH
er drawing by electricity as it is to
send the dots and dashes of the Morse
alphabet. While the transmission
was over a short distance, be-
ing between instruments placed i'll
adjoining rooms. the priciple was
clearly shown, and there can be little
doubt that at least as far as the
human voice can be transmitted
over telephone, the telautograph
can be worked. Among the advanta-
ges claimed for the telautograph is
the fact that both sender and receiver
have records of every message and
reply. There can be no mistake.
The sender cnnnot complain of err
rors-there is his message in black
and white. Then, so long as there
is receiving instrument, it makes
no difference whether there is re-
ceiving person present or not. The
message can be sent the same, and
will be found by the receiver when he
reaches his office, as if he had Just
got the communication through the
mails. The telautograph works noise
lcssly and insures secret service, and
the line cannot be so tapped as to
steal message, The telautograph