The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-28
NEWEST FEATUR'
IN TELEGRAPH (
Typewriter Which Receiv|
Wire Messages Installed iu|
the Salt Lake Office.
WESTERN UNION HAS
DEVICE READY FOR IN
Operator Sends Morse Code A,
Machine Turns Out the
Finished Copy.

Back in New York City or down
san Francisco or In any one Of hundr
OF offices throughout the country, n a
graph operator pounds sending KEY.
as he sends each letter Il typewriter
salt Lake City responds to the touch
his message. transmitted IN the No
code. is delivered from the sypewritsr
readable English.
This Is one OF the more recent wond
ful accomplisl nents in the art OF tai
raphy, and though such n system
been in use in the larger telegraph q
ters for some time, the complicated 4
ch!nery which II requires has lust b,
installed in the operating rooms OF
western Union Telegraph company
salt Lake City, The process was "A,
It's Trst try-out locally on Friday
saturday. and was found 10 work a.
tactorlly in every detail. though local a
dltions were found TO be such as to u1I
It's installation more difficult than
usually the case.
The system is known as the Barc
typewriter elegraph system The \
ehlnery incident to the process is va
and delicate. The techniCality OF
system. the why's and whereforea j
complex and bcwildering 10 the lawn
but briefly stated Il is merely the ux
css OF sending "A message on telegr5
instrument and having II received al
malcally on typewriter and written
the regular letters OF the alphabet,
the receiving station.
Explains the Workings.
Barnard Cummings OF Denver. who
been installing the local instruments,
plalned the workings in detail 10
Tribune yesterday afternoon. Mr., Ct
mings says that the system is be
placed by the Western Union comm
wherever business warrants II, and
Lake City having recently been mad
division point, IL was advisable to h
the instruments placed In the local
ilces az soon as possible.
The machine Is capable OF sending
receiving eighiy-fve messages an b
over good wires. The messages come
on perforated strip In code dots
dashes and as this strip ls fed thro,
n relay. series OF electro mechanl
machines operating I'm conjunction n
nicely attuned magnets strike the pr
er keys on a typewriter and the mess
is then taken from the typewriter re-
10 be delivered To the addressee,
typewriter Is II standard keyboard I
chine. and the carriage action and
line spacer work automatically. An
orator feeds In the blanks and takes u
out when the message has been recei
or Is 10 he sent, and the machine
the rest.
The system requires the attention
three men, not necessarily skilled LAT
ors. and II does the work OF four Tel
raphers. II Is fast. clean and accur'
and In fact represents Just about
last word In telegraphy.
II Is possible. Mr. Cummings says.
cut In any number OF typewrlters on
line. and copies OF messages can be m
also from feeders anywhere on th9 II
Unusual Conditions Hero.
Mr.. Cummings says that unusual. 4
10 "a certain extent unaCcountable cor
uons were experienced in Salt Lake
making the machine work satisfaction
There seems TO be a certain condlf
OF climate" said Mr.. Cummings vest
day. which / have not encountered'
placing the system elsewhere. The sta
capacity Is such that 1, was difncult
get the machines working so that q
would operate at speed. though We n
accomplished that now. and eveTyt1l
is lovely, An Idea Of changed condlfit
locally may be had from the knowied
that whereas the system calls for. ana
usually use, l50-ohm resistance coils,
have found IL necessary 20 use 35O-ol
coils in Salt Lake City. In DEM
though the altitude IL high. no difnc
was experienced and we can account
the trouble here only as some clinati
freak which is not fully understood"
The typewriter telegraph system
be used regularly beginning today.
trials Friday and Saturday having gf'
very satisfactory results.