The Wichita daily eagle., 1903-12-26
new WIRE RECORD
Telegraph System Which
Will Do Great Work.
EXPERIMENT IS TRIED
Technical Explanation of Plan
Is Given.

New York, Dec. 25.-Telegraph mes
sages can be sent and received at rate
of from 1000 10 5000 words minute. a
World reporter saw and heard yesterday
message transmitted and delivered at
the former speed. Some idea OF this tre
mendous speed is got from the fact that
the present rate of commercial comInuni-
cation is fourteen and a half words a
minute.
The inventor of the new process expects
10 change the whole system of business
communication.
Today in the transmission of messages
heavy press" wires can, by the use OF
the shortest code, with the most expert
operators, sarry only an average of 800
words an hour The record is $500. Here
is an hours work done in a minute.
The inventor, p. H. Delany, who de-
vlsed the muItiplex system, has been
working on his last device for ten years
in South Orange. His most serious OBJ
stacle was the interruption of a static
current, as the accumulation that gath
ers while a message is being sent IS
called Mr.. Delany simply made that
static current work for i living. over
coming the difficulty by the most direct
method.
Stripped Of all technicahty, the new
automatic telegraph system may be de-
scribed as follows:
A typewriter keyboard, properly man
ipulated causes two rows of perfora-
tions to be made upon narrow tape OF
paper which unwinds itself automaucal-
~ over the type faces and rewinds after
being perforated. This contains the mes
sage in a Morse cipher, the dots being
read when two holes are at a close
angle or nearly in perpendicular align
nlent. and the dashes wnen the angle Is
greater This tape, reeled as it is nm
ished. is put upon the transmitter, which
sends the same dashes and dotes TO the
receiving office.
variation of the methods of receiv-
ing adapts the device to several require
ments. In the ordinary form the words
are reproduced in written Morse or
by a series of short and long dashes
upon a paper tape chemically treated 10
show discolorations, or ink marks as
traced by the recording needle or Stylus.
Rv another means the perforat!ons are
reproduced as originally made for the
purpose of ''relaying" or forwarding.
The actual mechanism employed IN all
parts of the sending and receiving appa-
ratus is simple, though necessarily dell
cate. The perforator is an adjunct OF
the keyboard ard is controlled by pow
erful and very rapid electric motor
Above the tape. as it feeds its way in,
are two little punches, or needles, when
act automatically in response to pressure
son the KEYS. These are all the type
ther are In the transmitter. these per-
forations pass under two small electric
brushes" each of the holes permit
ting a contact as it occurs. The paper
constantly passing along, keeps the con-
tact points free from interruption by for
eign matter and prevents the formation
of an arc in the current.
On the receiver which is used TO write
Morse" two small fingers pass over
chemically prepared paper tape, and are
set at the same alignment as are the per-
forators Between them is a slender
marker or stylus The fingers are af-
fected by the Interruptions of the circuit
caused by the receiver, and cause the
stylus to make DOT or a dash on the
chemical tape corresponding with the in
terval on the sending reel
The perforation received is still more
simple 1t merely duplicates the tape
that is fed into the transmitter-an easy
task. electrically considered. But the
Transforming Of the holes sent from New
York into sounds Of click, click
click" ar say Chicago. is another
matter. Special magnets are adapted to
this construction. with the result that
the ticks sung out are in absolutely flaw
less Morse far more nearly perfect than
ever the nervous hand OF human agency
could send along a wire. The speed reg
ulator permits the clicking to be done at
rata that would not feaze the slowest
novice. If need be.
The main purpose of the system. how
ever. is not for use in business dealing