The age-herald., 1899-04-22
TELEGRAPHING
 WITHOUT WIRES.

From the Washington Times.
 A telegraph message was sent frQ Washington to Fort Meyer yesterday the rate of 100000 words per hour. It-wai written down clearly and automatically af@ the receiving end of the line
 When Herr Pollock, in Vienna, the day before, sent over one wire 6O,O00 words an hour. the cable carried the news around the world and scientific folk were no moro interested than the merest tyro in physics, Tor it was seen that resolution was meant to quick means of popular communities tion. But how much greater the reyolu-- ton when 100000 words are not only sent. but received and written down in the same length of time, and at a cost of transmits siore so low as to bring commercial teleA graphing within the rate now charged foR letter postage.
 The test yesterday was In final demonA stration of the perfect workings of new devices which have been developed from the first crude apparatus. It was the step- ping over the line from experiment into practicabHity.
 While the wireless telegraph experiments have been going on under the direction of General Greelys staff, until a point of success was reached yesterday between the war building and the naval observatory that make the next step Fort Meyer itself. Captain George Owen squier Ph D., form- CT instructor in the department of eleetric< ity and mines, United States Artillery school, and Albert Cushing Crehore, Ph' D., assistant professor of physics, Dart mouth college, old college chums, nave been working at night over strange oe@ vices and when questioned about their la- bors have given evasive answers. but now the seal of secrecy has been broken and the world is to know that new electric era Is upon it.
 The average rapidity of a good operator by the Morse system of telegraPhy Is thirty words minute. The synchrono- graph, the new system, carries 3,SSS words a minute. Anything that can be done to make a single wire carry more than one message at time, can be applied to the new discovery, it is said, and so the un- alterable difference in volume of business Is as 30 to $500. And one man can handle it with ease with no need for excessive precipitation.
 The theory of the new telegraph Is tho theory of wave motion in alternating elec-
  form of a nicely-made rail fence. It is synchronous with the revolution of the transmitter, which is dynamo with gear feeding by means of wheel with teeth on 1t, strip of paper having uniform perfor- ations in it's center which fit the teeth of the wheel This paper has on either side of the centre perforation round holes corr responding to dots and dashes in the con tinental Telegraph code. There Are brushes of wire in adjustable brass holders con- nected with the armature of the transmit ter, which is broken into semi-eircles. The brushes drop through the round holes on one side for the dots and is a complete cir- cle for the dashes in the paper tape ana open the circuit. A half wave makes a dot A whole wave makes dash.
 The receivers are endless tapes running over roll of paper. On the tape are wire points connected with small magnets on the tapes, which are electric transmitters. These little markers rise and fall as the wave is manipulated at the sending end.
 The paper used is chemically prepared and the markers using no ink bring out blue lines broken into dots and daSneS, the dots on on line and the dashes on an other but the lines are close together.
 In sending Rudyard Kipiing's White Mans Burden the tape with the dots ana dashes punched on 1t was pasted together at the ends and run through the transmit ter at a rapid rate, in a continuous stream of narrow paper ribbon, while the ilttle markers on the receiver wrote in the con tinentaI code the words of the poet Whcn are to live while the word expansion Is m the lexicon. It.
 The intention of the inventors of the synchronograph Is to apply their invention to the business of correspondence carried on by mail now charging scarcely more than letter postage for sending long messages hv wire. The idea for final application IS to have the Continental code taught Tn the schools and then the messages carried py the new process will be cut off the roll ana nut in an envelope and carried to the man to whom it is directed. A Morse or Continental code typewriter is to be invented and the writing and print ing of commerce is to be in dots ana clashes. according to Crehore and sauier. The young men who have been wefklns SD long in secret have a possibility Of mil- Hons before them. They have patents m nineteen countries. Already two great companies have negotiated for the use or inc new system. England, in which couh- try the postal and telegraphie system IS III harmony under one series of government roofs. has experimented over it's own nnes with the synchronograph.