Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-28
WONDERS DONE BY WIRE
kilograms, stamps and Mail Carriers
May Soon He Sent to
the Shklf.

It begins to look as IL we shall soon be
able to do without the telegraph, postage
stamps. mail boxes and letter carriers.
Imagine how convenient It will be to sit
down at the telephone desk In your office
OF home, call up somebody you want to
communicate with and then proceed TO
write that person a letter in duplicate just
as quickly as, you can write the words
down. And. II that particular person does
not happen to be in when you call he will
find your letter waiting on his telephone
desk for min when he returns, no matter
how many miles away you were when you
wrote II only a few minutes before.
More wonderful still, and this by way OF
example. the police OF New York may be
asked by the Chicago police to send them
the photograph OF a murder suspect. The
photograph is inserted in a machine some
what similar in size and shape to a phono-
graph, there is a buzzinR OF wheels. the
photograph ~revolves rapidly on a cylinder.
and in five minutes or less after Chicago
asked for the photograph a letter from
Chicago is received by the New York de-
psrtment OF police reading as follows:
Photograph received. Excellent picture Of
man arrested here. Many thanks for your
prompt attention." These are only a few
OF the wonderful new things that are being
done or may soon be done by wire. Later
on they may all be done by wireless. but
science and the inventor have not yet ad-
vanced quite that far. Sending photo
graphs by wire is not new. In a crude
way this was accomplished several years
ago. but recently an apparatus has been
| completed by means Of which II is possible
to telegraph a photograph Of any kind Of
a picture.
To telegraph A picture may seem very
! easy once the process IL understood, but 70
use the telephone as a letter writer and
artist for the instantaneous reproduction
miles away from your handwriting and
sketches seems far more complex. The
telewriter does all this. however. and more.
too. for II you wait a few moments AZ the
telephone after sending a letter over the
wire ylu may receive an answer I'm the
handwriting OF your correspondent. Writ
ing and sketches made with the pencil of
the Transmitting instrument are promptly
recorded In fac-simile by the pen Of the
receiving instrument. The complete instru-
ment consists Of the transmltter and re-
celver associating together so that mes
sages may be- sent 10 or received from
aither end OF the line. and the Instruments
are connected to the ordinary telephone
line without interference with or altera.
ton 10 the ~telenhone service.
The operator OF the ~telewriter IL a very
simple matter. The sender simply calls ar
on the telephone the person 20 whom n,
wants to write and then writes his com.
munication In pencil on a roll Of pane
attached 10 the transmitter. The machin,
does all the rest by transmitting over th'
telephone wfrs and reproducing at tn
other end everything the sender puts dowI
on the paper. The movements Of the trans
hitting uencil and the receiving pen beini
limited in extent. Il Is necessary that IN.
rapsr shall be fed over a limited writing
space This is done mechanically az tn
transmitter and electrically al the receiver
The transmitter has a finger lever con
nected at It's inner end by a rod to a pApe
shifter. When the lever II moved TO an,
fro between its stops and the paper shlfte
J rocks backward and forward and feed