RAPID TELEGRAPHY.
At Buda-Pesth (says the Vienna correspondent of the "Daily News") M. Pinter, Director of the General Electricity Company, read a paper on a new system of rapid telegraphy, invented by MM. Pollak and Virag, by which it is claimed that one hundred thousand words can be transmitted within an hour. Experiments have been carried on with a line of wire six hundred and fifty kilometres long, lent for the purpose by the Government, and the results showed that even that number of words was hot the limit of transmission. It should be .mentioned, however, that telegrams must' be previously perforated oh slips of paper, in the Morse alphabet. It is calculated that the new system will reduce the cost of long telegrams to about one twenty-fourth of. the present rate, provided they are handed in at the telegraph office in the form of perforated slips, in which 'form, too, they will Jbe delivered to the addressee. Should, however, the telegraph office have to prepare the slips, and also translate the despatch, mc cost will be considerably higher.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10410, 29 July 1899, Page 7
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