Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-22
New Invention Enhhiing 1850 Words
u Minute to Dc Reccived,

Washington, Sept. n 1t Is known
that the Western Union officials In
New York are very much eiatcd over
what they say is the success Of new
invention IN tclegraphy, md " which
the world 10 this moment has heard
nothing. The experiments have boon
conducted In the private Offices OF
the Western Union building In New
York city, upon the long circuit be-
tween New York and Chicago. The
result OF these experiments. as stated
In the caustic language OF one OF tha
leading officers OF the Western Union
company. Is this;
we have secured the lnycntioh
which is the most advanced OF any
thing that has yet been talked about
in telagraphic service. We can senu
from New York 10 Chicago, in quadrn-
pick over one wire, and have the COPY
at EACH end produced upon q printed
page, and not upon n slip. $50 words
minute, say that we can do this,
because we have done ~, There Is no
delay about 1t. Il Is not a system lin-
bile 10 be uhstruCted by delicate and
impossible mechanism. It Is not q ihn-
cy or fad which eau produce result
Ia an electrical laboratory, but DO ct
no service in a practical operation of
daily life The Invention IL ac1om-
ri. shed. IL * practical II VIII work,
il is a practical printing Telegraph.
which VIII give result Ia page form
! llse the page OF book. II IL the
thing that electrical inventors have
| been striving FOR since the early days
| of tclcgraphy. 1t ~ the Wheatstone
| system, very greatly modified and per-
| fected. so that single wire can be
| worked both ways, ana yield the result
| indicated. II viii be some time before
| these marhines can be put into prncti-
| Few nave as
vet been made. They are stu IA the
\ hands of inventors and constructors
| but the scheme IL perfected ana the
fact is Accomplished
! u suppose" said the gentleman 10
| whom this statement was made, that
Ina result win be n considerable re-
duction in Geographic tolls 80 soon as
this new system cun be put into praeu-
I'm that said this official. you pos.
sibly may be mistaken, Thc peheh'
for the present certainly VIII be 10
the advantage of the company which
owns and has perfected the invention.
There is no reason why telcgraphtnR
should be any cheaper. 1t IL IN many
Instances too cheap now. There urt
certain olesses Of messages whleh Nv,
sent for less than the actual cost OF
transmission. 1 know Of no move
ment 10 reduce telegraph tolls because
OF the invention | have described, or OF
any other that 10 expected
fl n understood that the Whehtstont
device, which has been In nHe ana has
been owned by the Western Union corn
pRuv for some years, has been greatly
improved through the inventive nno
lcgul ability OF patent attorney
mined Buckingham. who IL largely en-
gagged IN the Western Union ncrvlre,
II IN nscertnlned also that the Yves
tern Union company has made hr
rangements to use n newly patented
typewrlter machine which Is not ye
on the market. hut which VIII soon b
IL commercial instrument ana that az
order has been given TO equip the Yves
tern Union offices with this typewritc
az about onc-nfth the cost ~ IN
various typewriter machines, the rlce
OF which are now regulated 10y com
blnatlon Those who have given TN
subject uttcatlun predict that the tim
Is not far distant when the typewriter
ma wen as the bicycle combination. WI
be broken and when new ma9nine'
equal In the Judgment Of those VIII
| know them 10 those now on the market
will be furnished at so low o price a
to be available to all, 1t IL said tina
mechanical experts, who have recent
Investigated the cost OF both Vpt
, writer's and bicyclcR, report that N
actual cost OF these machines Uugh
r not to be much more than $50.
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