The Topeka state journal., 1921-03-19
A new INVENTION
TelegraphOne Is Latest to Addi-
ton by Science.
1t Is an Electrical Device of
Steel Wire.
USED BY THE SANTA FE HERE
Field of Commercial Aid Is
Almost Unlimited.
Was Used in Transmission of
Presidents Address.
USED BY THE SANTA FE HERE
BY v. f. BUNDY.

DOND1s
Modern science is making the alibt
harder ana harder to get away with
There has now been perfected an in
vention which knocks out the-ancient
saying that cit is better to walk ten
miles and say it, than to put it on
paper"
1t is no longer safe to say it. and
goodness only knows how soon it will
be unsafe to think it. Scientists will
doubtless be probing the ramifications
OF the brain, and detecting the naughty
things which never reach the lips IL
they maintain their present rate of
progress.
1t Is the Telegraphone.
The most recent invention calculated
to put on record will-nilly, is called
the "telegraphone," and is an electric
device which can give cards and
spades to dictaphone or most any
thing else in that line.
The essentials of the instrument are
simple, consisting of telephone trans
mitter, and a receiver. and a spool OF
line steel wire. By a process of cleo
tro- magnetism, sound waves made by
the human voice, or by anY other
agency, are recorded on the wire, and
may be repeated at will.
The instrument is, so to speak, an
electric photograph, but due to vari-
records and reproducing apparatus
of the phonograph as it is known to-
day.
For instance. it may he switched
into circuit with a telephone, and
every word of the conversation which
takes place over that phone is in
delibly and accurately recorded.
Used by President Harding.
The telegraphone was the instru
ment used for the simultaneous and
instantaneous transmission to thou
sands of persons, of the inaugural ad-
dress of President Harding at Wash
ington. 1t may be used in the same
way for addresses, music, or by news
bureaus.
No more may hubby declare that
wifey didn't understand him over the
phone. All wifey Has to do is to press
button. and hubby will have to listen
to Just exactly what he did say.
A contract made over the telephone
may be reproduced in court, and there
will be no mistaking the terms which
were agreed to.
The busy man who is going to be
absent from his office may attach
telegraph to his desk phone, and
the friend who calls up may hear this:
Sorry but I'm out at the country
club Just now. If were here would
he glad to talk to Won, but shan't get
back until o'clock"
or suppose it is the subscribers
better half who is on the other end or
tho phone. Returning to his office
and onenirS his key. hubby might be
sn,itten with some remarks in such a
vein rs. "Well you lazy bum. it's
funny you wouldn't stick around the
office once in n while. I'm going 70
rnamma's ia spend the night. and II
YOU want any supper you'll find wnaI
was loft from dinner in tie ice box.
Adopted by Wireless Stations.
Several wireless stations have adopt
ed the telegraphone as a means or re-
cording the wireless messages when
come to them. so that they may be re-
peated as many times as are necessary
to make sure that there are no errors.
'The field of train despatching, as
single instance, presents one of the
opportunities for the instrument in
the operation of railroads.
The uses of the telegraphone as
commercial aid. such as is the COM
mercial phonograph. are almost un-
limited, and the users declare that 1t
has many points of superiority over
the phonograph.
1t is possible. with the electric IN
strument. to dictate continuously Tor
thirty or forty minutes. as the steel
wire passes between the spools in the
machine. and unnecessary to stop and
change records.
When the steel wire on which die
tation has been recorded. has finished
its purpose and the dictation has been
transcribed. the pressure of single
electric switch demagnetizes the wire
which is then ready for another
record.
The person who is debating and the
typist who is transcribing, can be iso-
lated from the machine and from each
other, with telephone connections es-
tablished between them.
Used by Typewriter Exchanges.
Central typewriting exchanges. to
which letters can be dictated over the
telephone circuit and returned for
signature in a few minutes, are to be
established in several large New York
offices. buildings and hotels, thru the
use of the telegraphone.
Still another field for the instru-
ment is suggested by DIR. George NJ.
Gould. in a recent article in the Lit
erary Digest.
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