Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 7th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 10th May, 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by JACKSON RAE and JAMES CRADOCK SIMPSON, both
of the City of Montreal, in the District of Montreal and Province of Quebec,
Canada.]
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of No. 46 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The invention consists in so framing the telegraphic alphabet that the characters
indicating the several letters shall be composed of one elementary mark or sign only,
the difference in the characters indicating the various letters being shown by the
grouping together and interspacing of the signs.
As all marks, whatever may be their relative length, have the same significance no
error can arise from the confusion of the dots and dashes of the European Morse Code
or the dots, dashes and spaces of the American Morse system.
The letters of the alphabet are divided into groups, each group being denoted by a
distinct sign or combination. For instance the first group can be indicated by
a single mark, the second by two marks, and so on. Each letter of the group will
be indicated by a distinct sign or combination, such as one mark for the first, two
marks for the second, etc., etc., the sign indicating the letter being always separated
from that showing the group by a defined space. Figures, marks of punctuation, etc.,
may be indicated in a similar manner.

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I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of No. 46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, Consulting Engineer, and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention (a communication to me from abroad by Jackson Rae and James
Cradock Simpson, both of the City of Montreal in the District of Montreal and
Province of Quebec, Canada,) to be as follows:-
This invention consists in so framing the telegraphic alphabet that the characters
indicating the several letters shall be composed of one elementary mark or sign only,
the difference in the characters indicating the various letters being shown by the
grouping together and interspacing of the signs.
As all marks, whatever may be their relativo length, have the same significance no
error can arise from the confusion of the dots and dashes of the European Morse Code,
or the dots, dashes and spaces of the American Morse system.
The letters of the Alphabet are divided into groups, each group being denoted by a
distinct sign or combination. For instance the first group can be indicated by
a single mark, the second by two marks, and so on. Each letter of the group will
be indicated by a distinct sign or combination, such as one mark for the first, two
marks for the second, etc., etc., the sign indicating the letter being always separated
from that showing the group by a defined space. Figures, marks of punctuation, etc.,
may be indicated in a similar manner.
In the accompanying sheet of characters forming part of this specification is shown
under Figure 1 an alphabet, in which the letters are divided up into six
consisting of fivo letters each and the last of the letter Z and sign for " &."
,,groups, five
Thus the letter D being the fourth of the first group will be shown by one mark,
then a space, then four marks; the one mark being the sign of the group and the four
marks the number of the letter in it. The letter K being the first of the third group
is shown by three marks, a space and then one mark, and T being the last letter of
the fourth group has four marks, a space and then five marks.
The numerals, understood also as stops or signs, are as shown under Fig. 2.
Under Fig. 3 are shown the three letters A, N, and D as they would appear on a
telegraphic tape.
It will he understood that alphabets other than that shewn by way of example on
the accompanying sheet can be arranged according to this invention.

page_text: Having thus described and ascertained the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is as follows:-
1. A telegraphic alphabet or code composed of combinations of like marks
substantially as described.
2. A telegraphic alphabet or code, in which the letters are divided up into groups,
each denoted by a special sign or combination of like marks, substantially as herein
set forth.
3. A telegraphic alphabet or code, in which the letters are divided up into groups,
each group being known by a special sign or combination of like marks and each
letter in each group by a special sign or combination of like marks used, in conjunction
with the sign of the group, substantially as herein set forth.