The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-25
ELECTRICITY.
WONDERFUL THINGS CLAIMED
FOR THE TEL GRAPH.


Practical Uses to Which the Instru-
ment May Be Put.
From the Nelg York Times.
Some of the wonderful things that can be
done with the relautograph were shown to
visitors at room 147 in the building so
Broadway yesterday. Judging from the
results produced at the exhibition, the
seems 20 have been brought to
a point Of perfection at which it may be
made an efficient servant Of the business
world.
The telausograph is an invention. an cleo
trical contrivance, which enables man TO
sit down to an instrument in one place and
transmit, among other things. written
message, in his own handwriting, to some
one many miles distant. The message does
not travel through pneumatic tube; it is
transmitted over a wire
A representative of the Times visited
the rooms Of the Gray National Telauto-
graph Company, at so Broadway,
and saw several Of the telautographs in
operation. T. NJ. Logan, president OF the
company; John W. johnson, general man
ager; w. H. Eckert, general superintend-
ent, and John II. Bryant, stockholder, were
ment.
''If you will come in here, I'll show you
few of the things that can be done with the
telautograph," said MIR. Bryant The re-
porter followed him into a room where a
young man with a high forehead sat in
front of desk on which rested two instru-
ments each about the size of a big pinnacle
Through the center Of each instrument
ran a wide strip Of writing paper working
on a roller.
THAT instrument on the right is called
the transmitter,n said Mr.. Bryant. I'm
sending message, tire operator picks up an
ordinary lead pencil, near the point OF
which. as you see, two silk ends are fastened
at right angles to each other. Those ends
connecti with the instrument and, following
the motion of the pencil as the operator
writes, regulate the movements of the pen
which reproduces the message at the res
ceiving station
The young man, in response to a request
to write something appropriate to the occa-
sion, took up his pencil and wrote on the
paper OF the transmltter: There is q new
young man in town"
Word by word the sentence made its ap
pearance on the paper Of the receiver at his
left; it was a fac simile of the original mes
sage.
"You see, that records the message as it
was sent said Mr. Bryant. THE sender
has a copy of the message and the receiver
has one. Now we will 20 into a room at
the end of the corridor where the message
was sent
In the room in question was an intel
lectual-lookng young man, to whom Mr..
Bryant said
"You received a message from No. az"
YES said the operator. There is
new young man in town." and he pointed
to the message, faithful reproduction of
the handwriting OF the man who sent it. A
forger could not have reproduced the origi-
nal message with the fidelity displayed by
the telautograph.
Other interesting exhibitions of the cspa>
bilities Of the instrument were given. In
one room an operator wrote:
II send you my photograph. What do
you think Of it ~
Below this message, as soon as 1t was re-
produced in a distant room, the pen of the
receiver began to trace the outlines OF a hu-
m6n face. The only comment made on the
picture was that it fiattered the person
whom it was intended to represent.
There is one practical use to which the
telautogrsph can be put said Mr.. Bryant.
Let me illustrate: suppose. for instance,
that Supt. Byrnes has an instrument at
headquarters and there is one in each station
house. The superintendent wants to send
out an alarm concerning a criminal whom
"Why, he sends out an alarm, of course"
HE does more with the telautograph,"
said Mr. Bryant triumphantly. He has a
picture of the criminal, and one of the SUI
periutendeuts subordinates (of course he
will have a man who can draw sits down
and sends out with the alarm a sketch of
the criminal whom the superintendent is
after. This sketch is reproduced promptly
in every station house, can be sent TO rail-
road stations, or any other avenue of es
cape from the city. And in the same way
the te.autograph can be made to serve
papers which print pictures"
"HowF'
1--WE will suppose, for the purpose of
illustration, that some unknown person is
murdered in Albany, Buffalo, or some dis
tant city. On this person are found papers
indicating that he came from New York
An artist, such as newspapers employ, sees
the body. A sketch of the dead persons
face Is transmitted to New York as quickly
as telegraphic dispatch. The picture APP
pears that day, or the next morning, in a
New York paper, and the story of the mans
death is given additional interest by a
picture which may LEAD to his identifica-
tion."
INV does the receiver works"
be receiving pen is a capillary glass
tube placed at the junction of two alumni
ium arms. This glass pen is supplied with
ink which flows from a reservoir through
small rubber tube placed in one of thee
arms. The Morse syste of teleRraphY
consists of dots and dashes. This system
combines those dots and dashes. Prof.
Elisha Gray, the inventor of the telauto-
graph, has worked on it five years. He
thinks he lost the telephone, and he has
guarded against losing this wonderful in
vention by filing nearly 400 claims in the
patent Office. The professor, by the way,
Invented the musical telephone, which pre-
ceded the speaking telephone. He invented
the harmonic telegraph, by which eight
messages eau be sent over one wire at the
same time. But be regards the telautograph
as the browning effort of his varied and
wonderful electrical inventions.
''in what field can the tslautograph be
most usefulF inquired the reporter.
Wherever IA ecord has to be made In
speaking over the telephone mistakes are
often made. A man may order the pur-
chase Of. say, "A 600 tons Of coal. The re-
ceiver may understand the order to be for
81 00O tons. The telautograph makes no
mistakes. II records what is written, and
two records OF the message are made Bush
ness men frequently call In messenger boys
to take dispatches to telegraph offices. By
using the telautograph a man can send his
message direct to a telegraph Office and
have it on the wires before boy could carry
the dispatch to an office. In various ways
the telautograph will render the use Of
messenger boys unnecessary"
ANY other uses for the inventionF' said
the reporter inquiringly.