The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-30
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Telegraph Company Soon to Entor
Field. 81
In the last few weeks scores of ex.
perts have investigated the Delaly rap.
i'd automatic system of tclegraphy con
trolled by the Teiepost company, which
is soon to have In operation a telegraph
system in competition with the West.
ern Union aud the Postal. Over arti
fetal circuits equai to commercial
wires from New York to Buffalo the
Delany system can be seen any time IN
the New York and Washington Offices
of the Telepost company sending and
receiving telegrams at the rate of a
thousand words a minute.
The apparatus on which new ma
tional telegraph system is to be found
ed that will carry wire messages be-
tween oil points for n fat rate of a
cent word is so simple that anybody
can understand it. There is a perforat-
Ing machine with punches magnetical-
ly operating on tape. These punches
make the records, which are then
ready to be fed through the transmit
ter to the wire. The double row OF
holes In the tape passing through the
transmitter's contact fingers result I'm
positive and negative impulses, which
on the receiving tape are recorded in
the form of dots and dashes. The
current passing through the chemically
prepared tape from an iron electrode
to platinum electrode forms clear
blue marks that any one who knows
the Morse alphabet can read and tran
scribe
In the fewest possible words, this IS
the system that 1t has taken Patrick b.
Delany twenty years to evolve. When
Thomas A. Edison dropped telegraphy
Mr.. Delany, who was an associate of
Edison, took 1t up. Some 150 odd pat
ents have since then been issued to
him.
His fire invention to attract world
wide attention was the synchronous-
multiplex system of telegraphy, bought
by the British government In 1885 and
largely used on the English postal
lines ever since. All six of the first
class circuits of this system can be
worked opposite or the same direction.
The next time Mr.. Delany came into
popular fame, though the telegraph
world has always followed his work
closely, was when he succeeded I'm the
supposedly impossible feat of sending
cable message from Newfoundland
to England with an ordinary Morse
key.
But all the while he was keeping the
patent office busy on his minor inven.
tions Delany was hard at work on the
automatic system of telegraphy adapt.
ed to commercial purposes. which has
now been perfected to such point
that It forms the essential basis of IN
entirely new telegraph system for the
whole United States.
Why the Delanyl system was moi
bought by the old line companies Is nc
more (and no less) Of mystery than
their failure to adopt other improve
ments IN telegraphy which have re-
duced rates In foreign countries to O
fraction of those prevailing here and
resulted In 80 increasing business that
Americans send considerably less than
half as many kilograms as the Eng
lishmen send.
Asked why one Of the old companies
had not bought his apparatus. Mr.. De
lany said recently that 1t might be
because the patents were never offered
to them. Inventors have known fol
years, Mr.. Delany said, that there was
no use In trying to deal with q com
pany that had made policy Of refus
Ing to consider all inventions and i'm
provements except when they could bt
obtained for little or nothing. This
was the experience OF the men who dc
vised the Page patent, the duplex and
the quadruplex systems.
What the Delany system will do to
ward reducing telegraph rates Is showI
In the announcement Of the Telepos
company that it will carry twenty-five
words for % cents. without regard te
distance. On "teleposts" sent by wire
but delivered at destination by mall
the rate Is % cents for fifty words.
1t Is expected that "teleposts" Oh
telegraphed letters will be largely uset
for the pu,pose of catching foreign
malls. Received at New York by wire
the message viii be forwarded by
mail via any desired ship. On mes
sages over long distances n big saving
Will also be possible when delivery
within eight or ten hours is all that the
emergency requires. On a ninety wore
telepost frs III Boston to San Francisco
the cost will be 40 cents as against the
charge by the present telegraph com
panies Of $500.
SAcrocx In Mira Garuica