Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-25

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New York World.
This means that $4,000 messages OF
70 words each can be sent every day
from New York to Chicago. Mr.. De-
for each message Of seventy words
there would be a satisfactory profit to
the telegraph companies. The two
cents which the government receives
for forwarding letter Is almost equal
ly divided between the cost of railway
conveyance and local delivery of the
letter. The cost of transmitting the
words Of letters at the rate of 1000
words minute, IL the government
should do the telegraphing, would be
Insignificant. and therefore the outlay
Of the government would not be lin
Tied to one cent for local delivery. This
being 50. the possibility of a 70 word
letter delivered 1000 miles away In
one hour for one cent at once becomes
attractive.
Mr.. Dslany's instrument ls known ~
the chemical telegraph and has been
In existence In crude form for many
years. It has long been known that q
senstttzed ribbon would indicate an
electrical impulse fifty times quicker
than an electro magnet such a. Is used
m an ordinary telegraph receiver. A
practical application OF this knowledge
had not hitherto been made to any OK
tent.
The instrument, which was exhibited
before the New York Electrical Society,
spelled out message sent from the
transmitter at tho rate Of over 1000
words minute. When an artificial
resistance was put in which represent
ed the resistance Of the wire between
New York and Chicago speed Of 1000
words minute was attained. The
greater the distance between the send
ing and receiving point the slower, OF
course, h the speed.
Mr.. Delany obtained speed Of 1000
words minute over the telegraph wire
between Philadelphia and Harrisburg,
Pa. some time ago. The wire between
these two points is very thin and the
resistance Is great as between New
York and Chicago.
The reason that telegram ia now
comparatively costly is the impossible
ity Of sending more than a very limited
number Of messages over the line in a
day. Time is the all important thing
in sending matter over telegraph wire
and a high price must be charged by
the companies in order that the limited
number of messages may recoup them
for the large force employed and the
heavy working expenses. When the ca
pacity Of the line is increased twenty
fold without working expenses being
raised the price Of kilograms will drop
to one-twentieth Of their present prices.
The principle of the new chemical
telegraph is the recording of the mes
sage in the Morse code on long strip
Of sensitixsd paper Of the same size and
shape as that seen In the familiar stock
ticker. An operator In New York, for
instance, sending a message to Chicago
just perforates the message in the
Morse code upon long strip of ordi-
nary paper. He does this by putting
the paper In preparatory machine
which he works by three ordinary tele-
graph keys. One key is for the dots,
another for the dashes and the third
for spaces between words. The keys
actuate powerful electric bolts which
punch small round holes in the strip
Of paper at the direction Of the keys.
The space key works by moving the
strip along and thus making the re-
Quired spaces. These keys can be op-
Grated very rapidly and the message
is soon perforated in the strip Of paper.
The strip is then handed to the
transmitting operator, who places it in
the transmitting machine, between two
revolving rollers, and in contact with
two sets of fine wire brushes which
connect with the line. These brushes
have a tendency to come together, but
are kept apart by the paper. AS the
paper is reeled of the brushes come
together, whom one of the perforated
holes is reached, and by doing SO close
the circuit. Thus the circuit is alter
nately opened and closed the same as
in an ordinary telegraph circuit, only
with enormously greater frequency, be-
cause the paper strip is run through the
machine At the rate of eight feet Sec
ond.
Such terrific speed as this has never
been reached before. The multiplex
system invented by Mr.. Delany and
adopted by the British Postoffice and
the Wheatstone system. used to some
extent by the Western Union, in this
city, both reach q higher speed than
is possible in the ordinary way. They
do not, however, obtain q speed Of much
more than $50 OF 200 words = minute.
with the 1,oO0- words-a-minuts system
once established, people would send
letter kilograms to their friends instead
Of ordinary letters. and also receive an
answer in az many hours as 1t now
takes days.
1t Is predicted that the new system.
when it--or something like it's adopt
ed, will practically eliminate the type
writer A tape perforator will be Il
every business once.
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