TYPE SEETING BY TELEGRAPH

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 26 January 1894, Page 3

TYPE SEETING BY TELEGRAPH

Type-setting hy telegr iph ' is latest iddfc, and, accordi g tv Mr Donald Murray, who sends to the Leeds Mercury information on the subject all the way from Sydney, it is more tbas a vision in the air. It in «n sctaal invention, for which Mr Mnrf ay says he has recently obtained patents in the United State?, Great Britain, France, Gerttfany and other j countries. He claims that it is pcWible by his invention to operate at at dfttaooe,' over a: JjiDgle telegrnph wire, a typewriter, a .type-settinjj, machine, a piano, or any other keyhoard instrument. We are told also that bj? means of this patent 'it will ' in ; time he possible for a newspaper correspondent (say in New York) by playing on a typewriter key-board to set type or to work a Linotype mnchine mi a dozen or more cities all over the United States. 1 The invention consists practically of a repetition of two very simple element* — namely (1) a transmitting element (at the sending station), which, by the depression of a key, transmits a certain combination of fiv«» sh-»rt positive and negative cmrent*; (2) an interpreting element (at the receiving station) , by the ' passage throogn which of a given combination of positive an4l negative currents, a lever, is released and makes electrical , contact, thus energising a particular electro-magnrt which operates a certain type-key, only one interpreting element being unlocked by any gjveii combination o f Carre nts. : Thirty-two v traosmitting elfments connected in parallel form the tians* Vniitfer, and 32 interpreting elements the int6rpreter, and these com. ' Biiied with a shift key ( .device, a type- * Writer, ano* a battery,- all suitably connected/comprise the essential features of the invention.^ If all be: " as Mr Iforlray "idAoi^i, 1 uye century wilt sot go dot without seeing another fffeftt rdvolutioti in the dissemination