A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 5590, 7 February 1881, Page 4

A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

Mr R. E. Heuae, one of the origiral telegraphers of the Morse lime thirty yearß ago, has, it is said, perfected a telegraph machine by meana of which from 250 to 300 words a minute can be transmitted, received, and permanently recorded, acd which is Automatic in its action. The apparatus really consists of four parts, or rather four machine?, The-first in principle the type-writJDg maohine, bat instead of printing cfearaotera tats eliba of greater or leaa length in a atrip of hard a*d stiff Manilla paper with pointed knives, wklok are wised alternately tteoagk the bwer ami upper edgefl of the* paper by a system if levers woiked by a series of braes keys, the strip of paper pawing from a wheel through a narrow brass gafley, wad uodw wwstant pressure srec th« little slits tamign wkidt tie knives work. The length of the slit ind'oatoa the letter to a small fraction of an inoh. This strip of paper, whose marks are sot those of a punch, bat cut slits in a rapidly-moving atrip, is then plaeed in a maohine oonneetea with a battery, and mores quickly throngh it. Two constantly revolving wheels with sharp but not kwn edges fall readily into tha ilite—upper and lower alternately—of the paper, and tlinreby make an eleotrio current with a receiving instrument at another office witk a set of knives similar t* those in wkiek tke original slip is placed. The krives in tke seoond machine cut blips of a lecgfch eorresp«»ding to those in the original, and can be re*d by an expert, although they can ba printed in the feurth machine with a rapidity wh ; oh makes haudwriticg comparatively tedious and useless. Tins last instrument prints seme what on the sama principle as tha automatto telegraph, but th» letters are printed from the cut slit without any interference than that of the power whioh drives the machine. These messages record themselves, and tke presence or absence of an operator at the reoeiving end is of n« consequence. They can be sent with all the rapidity of which perfeot mechanism is capable, and will, it is olaimed, average 200 to 250 words per minute, or ap t rox : m>t3 15,000 words per hour of cons&ant werk. All delay will be in preparing th« instruments, and this o&n be accsmpaehed by oporators at such times as the wireß are cccupied from other stations. Perhaps the most remarkable feature th9 system, and the one whioh will strike oporatora and electricians 03 the moat improbable, is the simplest. It is that all oin ba seat to any particular station, and to no o'fl»r. The " call" ia so arranged in its automatic way that while the machinery is in movement in every office the knife-like wheel only fids the call-slita on the tapo in the office for whioh it is intended, giving an automatic reply, and the fcimilarly moving wheels in every other offics failing to fit the slips have no impression.—L»ndon correspondence ' South Australian Register.'