DOT AND DASH.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1257, 12 October 1911, Page 4

DOT AND DASH.

BATHER CLEVER DISCOVERT BY CHIEF ENGINEER 01" S.S. t'OItINNA. Knowledge of signalling by llio Motfo ccxlo is becoming neccssary to all officers on fillip, so as to bo ablo lo send messages bettvr«n passiiiK vessels or in lighthouses. To bo nn efficient signaller 0112 lias to be in regular practice, ami this is not ahv.ivs obtiin.iblo by a seafaring man. By tlio aid ol a machine that has just boon invented, a novice can send or receive a mossigo (says tilio "Olago Daily Times"). Jn sending a mcssago you loucli the letter required oil a typewriter key, and tlio dots and dashes aro flashed out from tho lamp shutter automatically. In reooiving a message the attendant repeals tlio dots and dashes flashed from tlio sending station, by working a lever front one Fide to the other, dots being made to tlio left and dashes to tlio right, and Vlien a letter is completed a plate is depressed, 'bus printing the Iclfw by a typewriter (which is part of -tlio UKudune) on a paper ribbon. Tlio rccoivinp machine is placed abovo tlic sending machine, ami the whole is enclosed in a ca.se. In making tiliis machine, the inventor lias had no other machine as a guide for giving him his ideas. Being a seafaring man himself, ho conceived tlio idea of having a machine that would bo of a.v sistanc® to those who bad not the opportunity of being proficient in tlio use. of tho 'Morse o>de signals. Mr. T. Melville, chief engineer of _ the s.s. Corinna, is the invent ir of this automatic signaller.