THE MURRAY MULTIPLEX.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 11

THE MURRAY MULTIPLEX.

— ; MARVELLOUS TELEGRAPH , MACHINE. There is scarcely a year passes without some impi'oveineiit being dieeted ;n the delicate- machinery' concerned in this transmission of telegrams, hat tho Htest wonder—now a year or t\tf& old—"is the Murray jnultijjles, which way before very long be introduced into New Kealiuid, probably only to te used on tho busy traffic lines' between tho four centres. Indeed, the Murray- Multiplex is much tea expensive, to use wncie there is iKst- at times- a call on tho ftil'-l-est 'capacity of the wire. "When that; hSppens to • bo thft case, the wcrk it -a ahi-u to perform is simply wonderful, Without going into technicalities—wit'; which t-lie Murray Multiples reeks—it jiia-v bo briefly ox-plaing-d/that tbo Mwssago is dispatohod bv pressing the keys of a njac-hino with a". typewriter fcyttfiard. Tho effect of' tho • nressing down of a certain letter or ftgaro n' space keys, makes certain pe-rforations, in. a' paper tape that i$ automstticaUy fed intp t.-I'io macWnß,.'vdiip}ij go,tag in -as a strip of clean white'.pap'or, romns out traiisHgwcd by devious pa'ttorßS inado up of nmuito perforations. . The tapo then passes buti ot tlio sciuling-inaehine into the tivuismil-tcr, where, on passing ficrtaiu fino needles, this perforations- aio iransfor.ir.ed in.. .positive and negative registered signals,, 'which form let-tors. These are transmitted over the- wii:s>' and afe received at the ■othev end. by what is known as -a typewriter receiver, an amazingly i-ugo.iii.Oui iiistriiitteli-t, which not actually prints tho message in ■ ordiftary lattering, but. prints it-on the form ready- for sending out to tha addressee. That is not all. Ordinarily, a man working a Morso . will send .thirty wards ft nsimite, but that is not nearlv Hu> capacity of the wsre, as it has bnoii. denwiistratei] frcqucmly in the Old Cii.iutry that four Murray Multiplex machines can work at the same time ovw (he oftc- ivifc. Indeed, Mr. T." Buckley, the Governinent. Electrician, _ saiv. ty.*e.ucy-fonr men at work on, one wire- al tho'samo iime (twelve at (nch end.), on the line between London and Birmingham. A surprising thing about the MurrnvSliiltipiex is- that it can. he operated hy anyone who can manipulate the -keyboard™aiiymie really who ean. typewrit". If a mistake is lr.ado there H n back-spaee release. By wliich the tape can bo draNvn baeb,' the rnistake-iaden section out cut, and the message re* sumed afia.ui wilhout any record of a Mistake being regisievecl at the receiving end. Finally, ai'M- the -printed, mosiage( on a proppr tcicgraoh form) is u;u reelc-tl at the receiving end it can be folded i« such a manner that, the naiiio. and addfess at the head of the telegram forms the solo and only guide' to the telegraph hoy who delivers it.

Mr. Paul ])ufnv;lt. tire eminent FtemlhCanadian tenor, with' tire members of liis company, arrived tack from & tour of the West Coast yesterday, Mr. iJtt&ujlt informal a Domjjhosi reporter Hat the torn had not only been very successful ntiiieialiy, l»t, be was glad io have had the opportunity of v'i'sitiiig that part of Mew Zealand, for iu' Imd ten charmed with tin; finest scenery lie had ever seefl.' The rklo through, tire Bullet' Gorge :lie describes as beautiful beyoHd tlio power of. more words, and the »a<t from Js son to Blenheim as tho reiiiisation of Arcadia, Mr. DtijV.u!t awl. his company left for the. south last evening. They will {rive one caneert in Tiwrru. one in Buuediiiv and wiil. Jo-are' tiro IHnlf. for Tasiuairitt and MalUounW on Monday nest. Then t hey at'" to visit Adelaide, Bendifr©. Ballatat, Sfcltiounw. Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, •' and . the North Queensland towns, Burly iu lime Mr. DftCaitlt intends to. feaj'o Australia for America.