The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-11
W. P. PHILLIPS
 IMPROVES MORSE
 SENDING SYSTEM
Former Head of United Press Association InVents Novel Instrument Destined to Re- place Present Apparatus.
1Rx Wn. 2. Gardner.l


 One of the most unique and inter transnission of Morse telegraph char acters, for the rapid handling of com mercia1 messages and press associa,- tion news reports, was held by MT. Walter P. Phillips, at the American Graphophone Company's factory in the West End, a few days ago. MT. Phillips, .old-time telegrapher. news. paperman and inventor of wide fame, presented his exhibit before a, gather ing of telegraphers and newspapermen in a preliminary test to show what can be accomplished by his invention which literally allows an operator re- ceiving messages or news dispatches to regulate the incoming flow of tele-' graphy as fast or as slow as he may feel disposed; to stop it altogether and go out for lunch, eresuming business at increased speed upon his return and catching up with the machine, upon which the messages or news has been continuously recording itself in dot and dash impressions on a tape await ing reproduction.
 What the Phillips system will do is to double or treble the number of words that can be sent over a single wire and this without requiring that the operators learn anything beyond that which the present Morse opera tors know now.
 This result is accomplished by the addition to each office of a set of very simple instruments. When there is no need of hurrying matter forward over the wires. the rapid system can be cut out of use by changing plug and the wires can be used in the or dinary way-send ding messages direct Iy by the key. The system is one which is of value principally to the teIegraph companies themselves and f1f Jea7S Sead wi public would often find a, direct bene- fit from it's adoption through getting messages promptly, which are now often delayed when there is trouble with the wires and there capacity is | reduced below normal.
 In the Phillips system the messages or other matter to be transmitted are l recorded in raised telegraphic char acters on a. strip of paper, and this strip of paper being run through a proper machine, the characters are | repeated by sound at the othersend of 1 the wire and the operator, reading them by ear, takes them upon a, type writer or by hand.
 The transcribing operator can vary the speed to suit himself. can stop 1 it at any point, and can pull it back l if he wants it repeated It is asserted l that the greater number of mistakes 1 that occur in the Wheatstone system
 are in the reading and transribing | and that these are done away with in | the new system, because the ear is | more accurate than the eye and also faster.
 These claims seemed all to be 1 proved by a recent test in which g lnewspape article was handed to 9 Morse operator and while he sent it 1 the operator who was afterwards tC | transcribed it. left the room. The | senring operator worked at the ordin- l ary key just as he would in sending 1 a message over the wire in the present 1 Morris system. The message, how l ever, instead of going over the mair l wire was sent only over a local office l wire. It was received in a machine