The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-03-26
4 woNnIiKFUI INVENTION.
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The following account OF n wonderful
invention in telegraphy Is from tho
baltimore American. Mr.. L. S. Norton,
tho general manager OF tho company
promoting tho invention. Ia an old
Wheelingman whose many friends hope
Tor tho success OF the, enterprise: n
WAsnlsaros, D. c., March q, 'o5.
Gen. Ftlis Asnui, Ba'tirIore. Nd ,s
Dam slR:-I have the honor to telc.
graph 10 you tho first message over our
line from Washington to Baltimore by
the Rogers system.
This system marks q now era in our
method Of correspondence. Electrician
and inventor, j. Harris Rogers, has
brokon tho bonds which have so long
bound US TO tho slow speed OF hand
power transmission, by invonting tho
elementary characters OF tho Roman
alphabet and visual synchronsm. Thus
his genius has achieved rapid printing
tolegrnphy-the most marvellous scion
tltic achievement OF modern years.
iours cordially,
l.. S. NoRr0S, General Manager.
Such was tho message sent over the
wires from Washington yesterday and
recorded In Baltimore upon an ordinary
sheet OF letter paper in curious, angular
Roman letters, with rapidity that was
simply marvelous-almost miraculous
tho letters being formed and recorded
ut ratio OF 1000 per minute. Tho won.
derlul machine which accom- lished tho
tear is the product OF twenty years OF
study and experiment by Mr.. J. Harris
Rogers, electrician and inventor. The
best operators send by tho Morae al
phabet and hand power transmission
about tweuty words per minute, the
highest ever sent By the most skillful
operators being only fifty or sixty words.
Many printing telegraph systems have
been invented with more or less prac.
tical utility. but they are slower than
the old hand-pnwer transmission, and
are not generally used. 1t is safe to say
that messages were flashed across tho
new wire OF the United States Postal
Printing Company. between Baltimore
and Washington. with tho Rogers ma.
chine yesterday, far more rapidly than
ever words were transmitted bv cleo.
tricity before. faster than words were
ever transmitted by telephone oven,
and were printed iaster than the most
expert typewriter ever transcribed
them on that machine. It will not only
do away with hand-po wcr transmission,
H,,,
spondence," said Manager L. S. Norton.
The company which owns i, is indie
nendont OF NIL tho gres. telegraph com.
pnn.cs. and has within the past few
days completed its first lone distance
line, which Is a single wire from he.e
TO Washington. 1t proposes TO extend
the line all over the country in compe-
tition with tho older telegraph compa.
MES. The method OF transmission is
by means OF slip OF paper perforated
with small holes, which Is moved under
ten small styluscs, the small holes al.
lowing tho points to make tho proper
connections that send tho impulse
which prints tho letter. or part Of the
letter. rather. ut tho other end. Tho
receiving arrangement Is modelled after
typewriter, except that instead OF lot.
tors there are only eight marks, the clio.
men,ary strokes OF Roman characters,
combination OF ;hcse doing tho print.
ing. The most wonderful pnrt.o OF the
invention is the reduction of all Ie,tcrs
into these oish. elementary STROKES, and
the synchronous action OF the transmit.
ting and receiving machines, which is
marvellous, the slightest change from
synchronou, action being visible 20
both TRANSMITTED aud receiver.