Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1906-03-01
A Great Invention.

"A itScilt issue Ci Uilc 1llulaidp)!lS
llnd.l Daily Star gives long account
Of an invention that has just been
perfected by Elmer a. Burlingame. a
cousin Of Il. G. Burlingame, Of Brofy.
this county. Following is an excerpt
from the article:
Suppose it was possible for d Ste
nographer sitting al her typew,r ritter in
this city to produce simultaneously two
copies of the translation from her dicta
ton book, the original on her own ma
chine and TIE duplicate on another ma
chine in a New York office. and this
without knowledge OF telegraphy and
without the Intervention OF wires.
Suppose newspaper correspondent
could at the same moment OF writing
his press copy on any ordinary type
writer, and without other human agen-
cy, set that same copy On a linotype
in the office OF his paper thousand
miles away, SO that with the final click
OF his machine the completed story
would be in type ready for the distant
printers proof press.
Suppose that d linotype operator
utterly Ignorant OF the art of electrical
communication could set type on :.
hundred machines at once, no two in
the same city, no wires connecting them
and no other operator concerned in the
transmission, reception and setting of
the matter.
ELMER A. Burlingame, OF Laporte,
Ind, is prepared to demonstrate his abili-
~ to perform these wonders. He has
invented device by which he can trans
init a message, with or without the use
OF telegraph wires. from one keyboard,
such as that OF a typewriter or linotype,
10 another corresponding set of keys at
distance, and the message will be
mechanically received and recorded ex-
actly astransmitted, including capitalize
ton, punctuation and spacing. A human
hand IS required 10 start the message on
its flight through space, but none is nee
essary to receive it. for the receiving
machine, whether it be q linotype or
typewriter, is controlled by the sender as
though he were present al its side.
1.-The inventor is confident that he has
sufmounted the purely mechanical diff
culties involved in the transmission be-
tween two machines OF different char
actcr as d typewriter at one end and
a linotype at the other. Where the two
instruments are the same they act in uni
son in all their parts and slight trouble
is met. Ii is expected that the prin-
ciple OF the invention may be applied TO
other keyboards, as those Of musical in
struments, comptometers, etc, though
as yet no effort has been put forth in
that direction. An application to the
transmission and distant reproduction Of
pictures is also contemplated as a sub
iect for future thought.
.BurlingaIne's invention needs no
Morse code or other system Of signals,
for it uses the characters now found on
any typewriter or linotype and it trans
uits them directly. BY actual count it
IS found that from two to three times as
many dextral impulses are made in put
ting a Morse message on d telegraph key
as are required to put i! on q typewriter.
This saving in itself grows into a great
item when words Of the message so into
the thousands. Ono person al the re
ceiving end can easily attend number
OF the machines. Any one who can
manipulate a typewriter can transmit
as well as another, and with all the
speed Of which he IS capable. Much
greater speed is possible on typewriter
than on a telegraph instrument"