Arizona republican., 1900-08-02
A TYPEWRITER MACHINE.
Which Is Also Telegraph Instrument
 Will Soon be in Use.

An invention that will make tele- 1 graphing simple to any one able to op- | crate a typewriter machine has been | perfected to such an extent by two | Chicago men that within a month CT
 two, or as soon as the final transatlan-
 tic tests have been made, the instrd-
 ments will be placed upon the market.
 The inventors are Zalmon G. Sholes,
 inventor of the Remington n-Sholes type writing machine, and Alfred C. Gil-
 more, an employe of the Remington
 company, and an expert electrician. Together these men have devised a
 machine by which a message written in
 ordinary spelling on an instrument
 with keyboard exactly like that of the | typewriter, will be transmitted over | telegraph wire and printed by another | typewriter in the office to which it ;s
 sent hundreds or thousands of miles
 away. It does away with the system of | telegraphing by sign and sound, at
 present in vogue, and the service of
 skilled operators will no longer be nec-
 essary. Any man, woman or child ca pablo of operating a typewriter will be able to send a message, and to receive it at the other end will only require the services of some one to take the print ed message from the machine.
 The great feature of the invention is that while it receives and delivers its | messages in the ordinary alphabet spelling, it still transmits them by the
 use of the Morse telegraphic code of
 dots and dashes. The transmitter
 turns each letter, figure or punctuation
 mark into dots and dashes, and the
 receiver, which contains an instrument
 called "selector," turns the dots and
 dashes back into the ordinary letters. In appearance, the transmitting in- strument is much like an ordinary typewriter. It contains, however, a
 shaft, along which raised points corre- spending to telegraphic rots and dashes | are grouped, and which is the center of the whole device. Each letter or sign has it's own place on the shaft, the dots
 and dashes which compose it running | around the shaft in circle. When one | of the keys of the instrument is
 pressed, a contact brush, such as is | common in other electric instruments, is brought into touch with the shaft at the point where the corresponding let | ter is located.
 The smart reVolVeS once, causing the | brush to touch one after the other the | dots and dashes that make up the let | ter. and the connections thus made | flash the letter along the wire. At the | receiving end of the wire there are two | magnets, one intended for the dots, the , other for the dashes. These are con-
 nected directly with the selector, which
 gets it's name from the fact that it se-
 lects the letter that corresponds to the
 dots and dashes, and makes the writing | machine record it in its proper place. | The moment one letter is recorded, an | arm breaks the contact, sends the Ge- | lector back to its original position and leaves the instrument ready for the next letter in the word that is being | telegraphed.
 The inventors of the machine have been laboring on it for five years. Tests
 were recently made with it over a cir
 cult of 265 miles of wire between
 Bloomington, Springfield and Peoria, with perfect success. MT. Sholes is
 now on his way to New York to make
 long distance tests between there and
 other points, and across the Atlantic.
 after which he will place the machine
 on the market.