Arizona republican., 1907-08-19
TELAUTOPRINT
new MACHINE
Which is to biSpIdCe the
Key and SOunder
A Description of Schaar's
Device Which the Postal
Has Adopted.

The Republican on Saturday morn
ing printed an Associated Press dis
patch sent out from Reno, Nevada the
night before saying that wv. H. Valen-
tine the inventor of a machine to send
Geographic messages without the use
Of a skilled operator had left that city
that evening and that he had just con-
Guided a conference with represent
alive of one of the big telegraph COM
panies for transfer of the rights OF
the machine TO that company.
This dispatch though of great inter-
est to all at this particular time was
Of especial interest to two gentlemen
from the coast who happened to be in
the city on business and that night
they told a reporter for The Republi-
can some facts about the machine.
They did not care to be known in
the interview but one of them said
that the machine is what is known as
the ~Telautoorint' not the invention OF
Mr.. Valentine but Of A. II. F. Schaar
q telegraph operator OF Los Angeles.
Mr. Valentine is heavily interested in
the company which was formed some
time ago.
The Reno dispatch was behind the
times in the statement that deal was
about to be made with ''one of the big
telegraph companies" for the deal was
long ago ordered by Clarence Mackay
Of the Postal as soon as il could be
demonstrated that il would accomplish
what was claimed for it, That was
proved to the satisfaction of the Pos
tal people months ago. for the gentle
man who gives out this information
had talked with w. II. Baker Of New
York one of the vice presidents Of the
company. E ]. Nally of Chicago an
other vice president and General Man
ager Storror OF San Francisco who
had all told him that the "Telauto-
print" would shortly revolutionize the
telegraph business of the world.
II is safely past the experimental
period. There is nothing now TO dc
but to mako the machines and install
them. 1t viii be necessary to have
several hundred Of them completed
before the york Of installation can be
begun but he thinks that il will be
begun within five or six months.
The gentleman who has been inter-
ested for years in the telegraph gave
an interesting history OF the -Telauto-
print" Said he: Almost from the
time Of the invention of the Morse sys-
TEN, inventors have been trying TO dis
cover some method Of superseding II
BY transmitting messages in fac smile
All such efforts except this one have
ended in failure but one. That is the
Hughes system which Is now extern
sively used in Great Britain. one line
extending from London to point in
Italy.
That system however could moi
come into use in this country for the
reason that the machines are very eX-
pensive and moreover il does not meet
the demand of the telegraph cOmpan-
les for a device which will take the
place of the skilled operator. While
il transmits fac simile messages cor
rectly and rapidly ITS construction Is
such that the operation of it requires
q delicacy Of touch which amounts &c
a high degree of skill.
other machines such as are used
on stock tickers transmit the messages
but they work only on an alternating
current and are not operative for q
distance OF more than twenty miles