The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-06
Teletypesetter, Which Operates
Linotype and Intertype Ma
chimes from Distant Points
by Wire, Stands Operating
Test Successfully in New
York !.

Rochester, N. Y, Dec. GA tele-
graph wire operated two newspaper
typesetting machines here today at
the plant Of the Rochester Times
Union.
Dispatches by wire were trans
ferred mechanically directly into the
machines, with human touch elimin-
ated, and were recorded in lines Of
metal type, each q long Is . news
column il wide.
The object Of the invention is to
shorten the time and work required
to transfer news from the place
where it occurs to the printed page.
1t is designed to be another step in
development Of the distribution Of
the printed word, which began when
movable type was invented by
Johannes Gutenberg at Strassburg
in 1893.
Today's operation was q private
demonstration held in the presence
OF q gathering Of men who direct
large printing and publishing enter
prises. They we're the guests of
Frank E. Gannett, publisher Of the
Gannett newspapers, who by his
backing sponsored the invention.
Walter w. Morey, of East Orange.
New Jersey, invented the machine,
known ~ 9 teletypesetter, and the
Morkrum-K leinschmidt corporation
OF Chicago built it.
The sending was done in the DEM
onstration room to two machines on
the opposite side of the room, which
were operated simultaneously from
the same wire. One was a linotype
and the Other an intertype. The
short sending wire was made equiv
alent to . distance Of 14O miles by
resistance coils.
Sent by Tape
The sender punched a tape, seven
eighths OF an inch wide, which oper-
ated the telegraph wire by sending
impulses corresponding to the holes
IN the tape. At the receiving end an
instrument = little larger than 4
typewriter produced q punched tame
exactly similar to the sending tape.
Ihls receiving tape then ran auto
mat!cally through q small electrical
machine on = stand beside the tyne
setting machine. The little machine
once more translated the tape holes
into electrical impulses.
The electric waves were carried
by q wire to IN apparatus roughly
resembling large human hand, fas-
tened to the side Of the typesettinr
machine. Each metal finger con-
trolled q number of letters and char.
acters Of the typesetting machine,
which it released according to the
impulse received, and when it rave
the release signal the typesettinR
machine functioned exactly as II 4
human operator had pressed down
the key for letter or character.
The teletypesetter is q develop
ment OF automatic telegraph print
ers, differing principally in but one
respect, that it uses . tape with six
punch units, instead Of the standard
tive units. The extra unit is re-
CURED to cover all characters of q
typesetting machine, which outnum-
Der those Of automatic printers.
Good For Markets
The sponsors predict special value
Tor the teletypesetter in transmit
ting market quotations directly in
to type, and an opportunity for book
publishers to save the expense of
keeping large stores Of metal type
plates. Instead of metal plates, the
tape may be filed, ready for rerun
when reprints are desired.
One sending can operate an in
definite number Of type setting ma
chimes, either in the same room or
cities far apart. A receiving printer
is provided which, without Interior
ing with the automatic typesetting,
enables an editor to read what is
coming over the wire. The teletype
setter stops automatically the mo-
ment anything stops the type set
ting machine it feeds.
Neal Dow Baker, president Of the
lntertype corporation of New York,
guest, said:
THE teletypesetter is a device Of
extraordinary ingenuity which ap-
pears destined to effect a substan-
tial modification of the composing
methods Of daily newspapers. Its
practicability is not to be seriously
questioned"
The possibility of operating type
setting machines by radio was dis
cussed informally but the builders