The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-24
A Typewriting Telegraph.

Correspondence of Black and White
Nondon).
During the last seventeen years, spent
in England, / have devoted myself to
invention, particularly in electrical appa-
ratus. 1 was educated at the Wurzburg
Polytechnic. Prof. Rontgen halls from
the same city. but was educated at the
university" The speaker was Leo Kamm,
the author of many inventions. 1t was
his zerograph that took me to his works
at Bridgewater street, Barbican. Hav-
ing learned that the government was in
quiring into the merits of an invention of
his which, if its accomplishment came
near its promise, was likely to revolution
ize the present system of Geographic COM
munication. l was anxious 10 get some
clear idea of It. My attention was direct
ed to a couple of bamboo tables at oppo-
site ends of the room. At the foot of each
was an electric battery, whence wires
ascended to an instrument on the table.
This instrument resemDled an ordinary
typewriter, and held roll Of paper mark
ed with typewrit.ng.
cit looks like a Remington, combined
with Geographic apparatus" l remark
THAT is Just what it is. 1t is a tele-
graphic instrument that, instead of print
ing dots and dashes on strip of paper
typewrites a message on sheet of letter
paper at DOIn enuS OF the wire slmulla-
neously The two machines are identical
in every respect and can be used indiffer-
emily as transmltters or as receivers"
"How is 1t worked?'
~The operator depreSSes the keys, as in
ordinary typewriting, and this causes a
current from local battery to disengage
a balanced pendulum in both machines.
There are thirty-six signs for letters, nu-
merals and spaces. You observe this cir
cular framework, consisting of thirty-six
upright bars? The machine IS constructed
so that it takes halt second Tor the pen
dulum TO travel from end 10 end of this
framework and fractions of half a second
(doWn to a thrty-sixth) for II to move be-
tween various Intervening bars. Now the
letter or numeral printed will depend up
ON the spaced moved by this pendulum;
in other words, upon the length of time
which elapses between two successive
electrical impulses. There are various au-
tomato devices for moving the paper, ad-
iusting the alignment mixing the letters
and so on. The fundamental principle
whereupon the machine is worked Is the
absolute synchronism between the two
Instruments. But for this absolute syn
Observation-Disclosures is the precise term
lii would be impossible TO produce the
same SYMBOLS at both ends, because the
adherence between one sign and another
resolves itself into minute difference OF
time. .. -
q erest advance on the Morse dots and
dashes: but is the not an instrument al
ready in existence that prints Geographic
eyes, the Hughes apparatus; but my
invention has certain advantages. II
-1rints on an ordinary sheet OF paper in
lines and paragraphs. Instead of requir-
ING an experienced telegraph operator, It
can be used by any one who typewrites
| II can be used in private ofhces IKE the
telenhone nd worked at all times Of the
| 1av or night without the Intervention OF
| telegraph officials. The machine IS auto
matte. and delivers its messages whether
there is or Is not some one at the receiv-
| ing end. It also has the advantage OF
| dispensing with clockwork, motors, and
| other cumbersome and costly devices. II
! cen he worked on the exchange system.