Evening star., 1928-12-06
DEVICE SETS TYPE \
BY TELECRAPHY.
Successful Test Reduces
Time and Work of Getting
News on Printed Pages.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ROCHESTER, N. Y, December g.
A telegraph wire operated two news
paper typesetting machines here to-
day at the plant of the Rochester
Times Union.
Dispatches by wire were transferred
mechanically directly to the machines,
with human touch eliminated. and
were recorded in lines of metal type,
each as long as news column is
wide
The object of the invention is to
shorten the time and work required tc
transfer news from the place where Il
occurs to the printed page. 1t is de-
signed to be another step in develop
ment of the distribution of the printed
word, which began when movable type
was invented by Johannes Gutenberg,
at Strassburg, in 1893.
Publishers Witness Start.
Today's operation was private
demonstration held in the presence of
a gathering of men who direct large
printing and publishing enterprises.
They were the guests of Frank E. Can
HCbt, puUIiSLleI Ol bI1e NfdIlIlebl IiSWS-
papers. who by his backing sponsored
the invention. Walter w. Morey of
East Orange, N. j., invented the ina
chine, known as teletype setter and
the Morkrum- -KleinSchmidt Corpora
ton of Chicago built it.
The sending was done in the demon
stration room to two machines on the
opposite side of the room. which were
operated simultaneously from the same
wire. One was linotype and the other
an intertype. The short sending wire
was made equivalent to a distance of
140 miles by resistance coils.
The sender punched a tape, seven
eighthS of an inch wide which operated
the telegraph wire by sending impulses
corresponding to the holes in the tape
At the receiving end an instrument a
little larger than typewriter produced
punched tape exactly similar to the
sending tape This receiving tape then
trical machine on a stand beside the
typesetting machine. The little machine
once more translated the tape holes into
electrical impulses.
The electric waves were carried by
wire to an apparatus roughly reSem-
bling large human hand. fastened to
the side of the typesetting machine.
Each metal finger controlled a number
of letters and characters of the typeSet-
ting machine, which it released accord
ing to hte impulse received, and when
it gave the release signal the typesetting
machin f,mctioned exactly as if a hui
man operaor had pressed down the key
for a letter or character.
Solves Stock List Problem.
The teletype setter is a development
of automatic telegraph printers, differ
ing principally in but one respect. that
it uses a tape with six punch units, in
stead of the standard five units. The
extra unit is required to cover all char
acters of a typesetting machine, which
outnumberS those of automatic printers.
The sponsors predict special value for
the teletypesetter in transmitting mar
ket quotations directly into 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 indefinite
number of typesetting machines either
in the same room or cities far apart.
A receiving printer je provided, that,
without interfering with the automatic
LyQeSeJJlnR. enables al eQIOOT 10 sTcdQ
what is coming over the wire. The
teletypesetter stops automatically the
moment anything stops the typesetting
machine it feeds.
Radio Feature Discussed.
Neal Dow Baker, president of the In-
tertype Corporation Of New York,
guest said:
The teletypsetter. is device of
extraordinary ingenuity which appears
destined to effect substantial modif1-
cation of the composing methods of
daily newspapers. Its practicability is
not to be seriously questioned"
The possibility of operating typeset-
ting machines by radio was discussed
Informally, but the builders Of the ma
chine said that feature is still in the
experimental stages.
Mr.. Morey, he inventor of the tele-
typesetter, came up from the compos-
itors case. He was born in Green
River. N. Y, in 1882
When 20 years old he spent his nights
learning how to- operate typesetting
machine During the past IS years he
has worked at various jobs in the print
ing business,
He began working on the plans for
the teletypesetter several years ago.