Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-09-22


honored throughout the civilized world.
Then followed a request. which was
granted. to witness. In operation. the
Delany automatic rapid system Of tele-
graphy.
Mr. Delany enjoys a comfortable in
come from property purchased since
the disposal of this invention to the
British government in 1885. This fact
Tin addition being free from the dis
tressing lack of means so often found
depressing inventory has enabled him
T. develop his ideas and TO perfect the
later inventions emanating from his
fertile brain to the highest Obtainable
degree before placing them before the
public. Mr. Delany is now preparing
patent papers in large numbers. deal
ing with new and important problems
in connection with wireless. automatic
rapid telegraphy. and other kindred
inventions.
After dispOsing of the Sychronous
system. Mr.. Delany next turned his
attention to cable signalling. and sew
eral years ago succeeded in sending n
message through the old Atlantic
cable from Newfoundland to London
with an ordinary Morse key-a feat
never before accomplished nor deemed
possible. An invention Of great value
was a cable for underground trans
mission of electric currents immune
10 induction, which is in extensive use
An important fact in connection with
these anti-induction cable patents is
revealed in the formation OF the well
L l.. =
company which has been for many
years engaged in the work Of utilizing
To the fullest extent. for the benefit of
the public. the marvels of this partic-
ular invention. His inventions of
greater or less importance are too
numerous to catalogue. and have been
the basis of more than one hundred
and fifty United States patents.
His work in the field of Synchron-
Gus MultipleX telegraphy filled Mr.
Delany with a desire which became
the controlling ambition of his life.
that Of developing a system of prac-
teal postal telegraphy. BY this was
not meant merely a service controlled
by the government. but one so rapid
and cheap. and so little dependent
upon individual skill in transmitting
and receiving that ii should supple
ment, and to a great extent supplant.
business correspondence by mail. The
conditions precedent Ia success in this
application We're numerous and arbi-
trary, but after many years he has
met them in a perfected system of
automatic rapid telesraphy. which will
be known the world over as the Tele-
-. h.. Ia.
the browning achievement of Mr.. De-
lany's career as an inventor; although
il is yet to be seen what he will have
accomplished when his experiments
unlike those of the Marconi. De For
est or other systems) with wireless
telegraphy. now i'm progress at Nam
tucket, are completed. Working in his
own way with kites. before his wire
less station was erected. he was one of
the first to receive what was not in
tended for him at all, the official news
that the Japanese fleet under Admiral
Togo had smashed the Russian fleet
and broken the power of the Car in
the east beyond repair. But that. as
Kipling would say. is another story.
The automatic rapid is now a per-
fected system. complete in every de-
tail The message is written on a
continuous ribbon or tape of paper as
rapidly as an operator can write with
the typewriter. Anyone sufficiently
familiar with the standard keyboard to
pick out" the letters he wants, may
write his own message. 1t is recorded
in series of perforations. This is
sent TO the transmitting office and run
through machine which puts it
through the wire at the rate of one
thousand words a minute. No skill in
telegraphy is needed for transmission.
consequently nothing depends upon the
intelligence of the sending operator
Obviously a message sent at such
speed could not be taken in the usual
way. by sound reading. So the re-
ceiving device is made equally auto
matte. Another machine receives the,