Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-29
MACHINE A MARVEL
TELAUToeRAPH is BEING USED
BY MANY OF LARGEST BUsI-
NESS CONCERNS.
Is Perfect Writing Telegraph - One
of Most Interesting Exhibitions at
the Lewis and Clark Exposition
How 1t Operates.

The telautograph is axactly what It's
name indicates, a writing telegraph,
but there are few people who appreci-
ate fully its wonderful Importance as
an addition to scientific knowledge and
an adjunct to modern methods of doing
business
In the patent Office section of the
United States governm ent building at
the Lewis and Clark exposition this
marvellous new machine Is on exhibit
ton, and any one who desires may
Write his name or message and have
it reproduced over resistance equtva-
| lent TO twenty miles Of telegraph wires.
No Skill in operating is required to use
the telautograph, and any one who can
write can use it without previous ex-
perience. This is one of the features
which makes the machine commercial
| ly SO important. 1t enables the ma
chimes to be used to great advantage
in departm ent stores, factories, banks,
depots, restaurants and host of
other places, where quick information
and a permanent record Of the mes
sage is desired
| The telautograph, like the telephone,
consists of two parts, transmitter
and receiver. The person sending
/ the message writes it on a strip OF
paper, which unrolls from roll after
the manner of cash register In use
/ in many stores, The rubber end of the
pencil has attached to it two wire arms
which connect with the intricate mech
anism concealed beneath the covers
of the machine AS the writer works
his pencil which, in spite of the wire
arms, is as easily operated as an ordin-
airy pencil, two corresponding wire
arms on a pen which composes part
of the receiving arrangement make the
pen perform the evolutions that the
pencil goes through. Thus at the down
stroke of the man sending the message
the pen at the other end of the wire
4 moves down; when the 81" is dotted
by the writer. the pen, perhaps q
thousand miles away, lifts from the
/ paper, and makes the dot. If the man
sending the message makes mistake
i a draws line through the error, and
the pen at the other end of the wire
/ draws corresponding line through the
part Of the message which is to be
stricken out.
How the Pen works.
i The pen inks automatically. dips
at regular intervals into little ,inl
: well which has tiny hole at the
. bottom The paper is also SHIFTED
/ automatically, after each line5hss beer
written In the machines on exhibition
/, in the government building at thu
: western worlds fair, the transmitte'
, and receiver are but few feet apart
and as one writes he may see thu
pen Of the receiving machine execute
an exact duplicate Of the marks which
he makes on the paper roll.
At present telautograph outfits ar
being Installed in business houses TO
the most part but they are used II
many ways Because of the fec. tina
they require for operation two wires
r and for long distances third wire
) they cannot be used to advantage il
: place of telegraph instruments, sine
l if a message was being sent say
from a point to aE-other point
: thousand miles away, all intermediate
: points would be cut off from communi
: cation while the wires were bein'
4 used for this message. A message ha
: been accurately transmitted for a
r great a distance as 1900 miles, an
2 the promoters of the machine are al
! tempting to perfect it SO that it ma.
Y take the place of the telegraph in
strument. It's advantage over the in
3 strument now in use consists prir
t cipally in the increased speed whicl
= might be obtained-in the entire at
r sence of the possibility of error. an
r in its making an absolute record Q
: every message, so that in case of
+ blundar the blame can be traced t
r the responsible peerson
I How it May Be Used.
Q In the Office of Attorney James f
g Dill of New York City the telautc
q graph is 'sed to take the place c
; the Office boy. When caller ask
$ to see Mr.. Dill the clerk writes o
the telautograph. "Can you see M
Brown" Mr.. Dill is engaged on a
important business matter, and tn
S interruption of an Office boy openin
t the door would cause confusion, an
:. perhaps mil,t affect the success {
the Interview But when the cler
in the outer office writes, Can yo
see Mr. Brown" the caller does nc
d see the message, which is, howeve
II plainly visible to the attorney benin
e the roll top desk Mr.. Dill pushe
L a button, which operates buzze
n and by the signal the mystified GALE
a clerk in the outer Office that IN
h Dill is busy and cannot see you t
e day." or that "Mr. Dill will see yc
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