The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1904-10-06
writing by Wire

The national government has recently Il
stalled In the iortH Along the coast ne
q Kind q Telegraph, which IL valuable Tor Il
accuracy aud tteftcy. It neels 10 toil
/. graph operator, 40 Morse e6de, aud Ia nc
liAblc 10 any tapping o. the wire. It lprs
serves TIC message Al both eras OF lh
wire, Ia autograph, for ilirg and reference
aud i will transmit shorthand, diagrams
skcleheF, snd cyes Chlnofe OF tleroglypA
lee, AZ rtstily as ordinary words. Il i
called The telaulograph, fen The Cred
words 'fir sta distance; aofas, ores telt
aud gfafh' to write; and lts name cx
presses ist what II is--an instrument /,
enable one 10 write, even etA distance, IL
ones owa handwfItirg
The tolautograph looks very lkia wall.
tel pboae, tut instead Of MOUTH l,ea arc
rtee.ye', it has an ci dlcss sheet Of paper,
passing over rollers, and across Sn open
space Oh the prI ctlrg desk, shero pen.
ell is held "a place By two diagonal lev.
ers.
To use the Instrument, the wri.tr rings
once, PULLS out lever At the side, takes up
the peuc', and writes the message dctif-
ed Oh lh1 ptpar, the rollers taking he
she ! on award as 1t fills up, line after line.
Meta camp slides hold the p per In
place a. ,ha pencil travels over it. when
the mssRsge s written, the writer RIGGS
twice, aud the thlpg 10 done.
The receiving telautogrsph isuumeut
may be acr rs the room, or on the next
nlor, or four hundr, miles away. makes
no difference As the ball riggs, II sets to
work ii unison With TIE transmitting pow.
er, Wht thcr any b gdy Is near lt or not. It's
twin endless sheet Of psp!r "a In an upright
box, not 10 desk, but the rollers, etcft ~,
are the same as in the transmitting lustru-
ment ard as the writer's hard, far tway,
moves the pencil across the psper, self
feeding pm, similarly attached to diagonal
lever', reproduces each motion tx ictly
here, as II guided by an I visible hand.
There is something distinctly weird and
creepy Ia he sight to the onlooker who
watches This pen q ding, Without human
touch, over the sheet, while q well.known
Handwriting stands out, word after word,
In its swift, i!ent track.
A sum Is set down, figure by figure, and
worked cut, a sketch made, In the same
wonderful way. Then the pen stop, the
bell rings twice, and the message Is done,
and the paper rolls itself In place ready for
the mex. call. The receiving instrum mt
may be left In a locked room all day, but
when the owner comes back, he will n I'd all
the messages received Ia their order, accur. |
a.tly IN tutograph-a perfect record, au.
thoritativo and secret
The telautcgraph IL especially useful to
bank illeers and their questioners.
When merchant asks tho teller or ca b.
Ter the amount Of bis balance, he naturally
does not want the answer given SO that
every one around can hear It.
In one Boston bank the telautograph re-
icves this embarrassment. The teller
writes tn question, which Ia reproduced In
.he boohk eper's Office. The bookkeeper
writes the answer, the teller tears tn the
Zip after II has passed beyond the rollers,
md hands II to the irquiror, who thus hss
l written and secret record OF his balance.
The teller can also Inquire from the book.
Keeper the status Of any customer without
he customers knowledge, as he stands be-
ore the window.
In some banks all telautograph messages
between teller and bookkeeper are recorded
1t the disk Of a supervising oillcer, who
IAN also send me- ssages to either Of them at
will. In clubs, where the telautogrsph Is
low being installed for grill.room use, the
Message appears simultaneously In three
pantry and kitchen. l.
Railroad train despatchers find the new
invention valuable because II makes no mis-
axes in numb RS and preserves record,
10 that any responsibility for blunders can
,e fixed exactly where 1t belongs, with no
hadow OF doubt. War ships adopt 1t be-
ause the commands OF the officers can be
and recorded when the tele-
hone would be inaudlble on account OF the
oife Of guns or machnery. Any ordinary
irect electric current will run the telauto-
'rsph, aud any person who can read and |,
write can use IT,
The long distance ttlsutogrsph Is not yet
n accomplished fact, for a strong current
! rta9lFed, and four hundred miles Ia the
mi. so far o ihe carrying power Of the
instrument