The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-12
HIS INVENTION A SUCCESS.
Mr.. viii WYnne's Telegraph Alarm Call
Tested Yesterday and Found Sue
cess in Every Particular.

| Mr.. VIII WYnne's elegraph Alarm CalI
Tested Yesterday and Found Sue
cess in Every Particular.
Mr.. Will Wynne had reason to be
proud last night.
He has made a national reputation
as rider of the uncertain cycle, and
his trick riding ON the bicycle has as
tonished gaping crowds from Maine to
Florida.
He has made wide reputation as
''twirler of the sphere" q baseball
pitcher of puzzling curves and daz-
cling throws.
Last night he added TO himself the
title of inventor.
No one who saw the test of his tele-
graph alarm call yesterday afternoon,
doubts that he has achieved success,
and achieved it in an invention where
| skilled and experienced inventors
have failed. For nearly four years Mr..
Wynne has worked on this instrument
| Last afternoon it was tried for the first
time.
The invention is a telegraph alarm
call. 1t is local instrument placed
on the telegraph operators desk. 1t
resembles the relay in appearance
more than it does any other telegraph
instrument in common use, but the
similarity to the relay is only in it's
appearance.
The instrument is so arranged that
given number of strokes from a key
on the same circuit releases a ratchet,
and this establishes communication
| with an electric bell that rings con-
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the operators attention to the "can."
With this instrument the calls" for
all offices along the line are numbers,
instead of combinations of letters, as
now. When the operator wishes to
call any particular office he presses on
his key the number of strokes that cor
responds with the call of that Office.
The bell in the receiving Office rings,
the receiving operator cuts in his
sounder, and communication is es-
tablished. No other instrument along
the line except the Office called is dis
turbed. All messages sent are private
known only to the sender and Teceiv-
er. The receiving instrument is at
work only when there is business for
that particular Office.
THE TEST SUCCESSFUL.
Yesterday afternoon the instrument
was tested at the Western Union of
fee in this city. 1t was put on the
main circuit of the Western Union.
The instrument here was set at six.
When six strokes were sent from any
office along the line, the instrument
would give the alarm. No other num-
Der of strokes would affect it in any
degree The instrument was well test
ed, and never failed TO respond.
WHAT THEY SAY OF IT.
Manager Albert Egerton, of the
Western Union, said last night
81 think the instrument will do what
Mr.. Wynne claims for it. He demon
strated that this afternoon. The in
strument was put ON one of our main
circuits and attached to an electric
bell He said the number of the in
strument was six. At the sixth stroke
of the key the instrument struck.
When it went to any other number
the instrument was silent.
II certainly think it is a success,
/ think he has the right principle and
that there's big money in it,"
II have been working on this inven-
ton nearly four years." said Mr..
Wynne last night, land have spent on
its completion nearly two thousand
dollars. i spent three months in New
York last winter consulting model
makers and patent lawyers regarding
the necessity of such an instrument.
They all told me many had worked
on such a machine, but without sue
! cess
| "The test of the instrument this af-
ternoon proved that it is a success in
every particular"